landgrab
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of landgrab
C20: from the competition to stake claims to available land in 19th-century America
Example Sentences
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But investors appeared to take the read from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s bullish forecast that companies are more focused on winning the AI landgrab than maintaining cost discipline or preserving their balance sheets.
From Barron's
But investors appeared to take the read from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang’s bullish forecast that companies are more focused on winning the AI landgrab than maintaining cost discipline or preserving their balance sheets.
From Barron's
Strelkov, a former intelligence officer, played a key role in Russia's 2014 landgrab of Crimea.
From BBC
The machines’ encroachment was slow at first, but this year it turned into a landgrab.
From Science Magazine
The landgrab for subscribers has caused massive upheaval in the industry.
From Los Angeles Times
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