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One land-grabber, Alvim Souza Alves, was trying to sell a plot inside the Uru Eu Wau Wau indigenous reserve for about £16,400 in local currency.

From BBC • Oct. 8, 2021

King Arthur loves Guinevere and tries to keep her from the clutches of Lancelot and a land-grabber.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 26, 2019

They call BB a cumulard, or land-grabber, and bewail the fact that in recent years the actress and 37 other wealthy city slickers?among them Movie ActorJean Gabin?have all staked out exurbanite estates in Orne.

From Time Magazine Archive

The land-grabber Reid had come back to the Grants, ousted the Hampshire settlers, and again established minions of his own in their places.

From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by Foster, W. Bertram

Since he has extended his operations from his native country to our own free soil the land-grabber should be examined under the microscope of history analytically, impartially, and truthfully.

From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Fortune, Timothy Thomas