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land grab en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of landgrab.
    alt of landgrab
    • A central tenet of that order was that big states could not simply swallow up smaller ones, that unprovoked aggression and conquest would no longer be allowed to stand. Yet here is Trump bent on rewarding just such an act of conquest, not simply acquiescing in Putin’s land grab in Ukraine but conferring on it the legitimacy of approval by the world’s most powerful nation. 2025 April 25, Jonathan Freedland, “Ukraine has exposed Trump’s true identity: as a vandal, an autocrat, a gangster and a fool”, in The Guardian:

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