squatter
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Patent and Trademark Office, Tesla said Unibev was “a bad-faith trademark squatter, who started as a Tesla fan” and described the French company’s attempt to trademark the Cybercab moniker as fraudulent.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026
Animal control officers from Pasadena Humane confirmed that a bear was living under an Altadena house Sunday but could not be sure if the latest bear squatter was the same bruin from the earlier incident.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2026
She excelled on stage and screen in Alan Bennett’s “The Lady in the Van,” playing a crotchety squatter with an imperious sense of entitlement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024
The operation came days after police carried out a large-scale eviction at France’s biggest squatter camp in a suburb south of Paris.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
A lot of squatter towns, Hoovervilles, was built on the tracks, I guess ’cause people got around by hopping the rails.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
A security guard stood in front of the cabana to stop any would-be squatters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026
The corner lot on which the club stands is now surrounded by hundreds of dilapidated and abandoned buildings occupied by squatters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 22, 2025
He said the former library building, which is being repurposed into an Asian Resource Centre, had also had squatters living in it.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2025
Several dozen empty trailers that drew squatters and sparked a legal battle in Los Angeles County are now creating a major headache for neighbors and officials in Riverside County.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2025
The squatters considered the Muscogee Nation to be the main barrier to their permanent settlement in the region, particularly Georgia.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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