How to Use cash grab in a Sentence

cash grab

noun
  • This bears all the hallmarks of a likely cash grab.
    — Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Push back against obvious cash grabs.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 2 June 2026
  • If the idea was pitched today, it may have been derided as a cash grab.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 8 Apr. 2026
  • People who have no idea about the journalist killed just want to hear about this stupid cash grab.
    — Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2025
  • But their efforts are not enough to save this unnecessary sequel that smacks of a cash grab.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Brand partnerships are a transparent cash grab.
    — Sloane Crosley, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • If a cynical person wants to say that all [legacy sequels] come from the same cash grab, that’s just not my view of it.
    — Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 11 Aug. 2025
  • With Taylor Swift, fans can spot an obvious cash grab very quickly.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026
  • Pitching a book as abstruse as Your Name Here as a kind of cash grab is the novel’s wry joke.
    — Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 1 Jan. 2026
  • But to me, a cash grab is something done purely for profit with little regard for value or integrity.
    — Ashlyn Robinette, People.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • The op-ed further frames Illinois’ cannabis policy as a cynical cash grab.
    — Chicago Tribune, 18 Jan. 2026
  • The leagues attempted to put a positive spin on this cash grab by echoing Silver’s point about oversight.
    — Danny Funt, New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Most Presidents save the legacy-building cash grab for their second term, waiting a few months so as to give re-election donors a reprieve.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 7 May 2026
  • Building and owning a home has turned from being a reasonable life goal to a complete cash grab by corrupt and mismanaged governments.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • But fear not, Riley remains as outraged as ever over the exploits of our capitalist society and is far from succumbing to the urge to go for a cash grab.
    — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • Many emerging and mainstream designers in the fashion space prove that embracing queerness isn't confined to June or a plethora of rainbow-donning cash grabs.
    — Kevin Huynh, InStyle, 11 June 2026
  • But Deputy House Speaker Steven Smith, who was a leading advocate for the bill, called them a cash grab that have not proven to make the roads any safer.
    — Neal Riley, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Cynical cash grabs will inevitably follow, but the industry also has a chance to take away some important lessons from the Heated Rivalry success.
    — Literary Hub, 22 Jan. 2026
  • This comes a few weeks after Starlink raised prices for its monthly plans by $5 or $10, prompting some customers to claim SpaceX was resorting to a cash grab.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 9 June 2026
  • While critics say the mayor’s move is another cash grab aimed at closing a large budget deficit, his staff says problems with community parking districts started before city finances became grim.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Sep. 2025
  • At least the New York Yankees refuse to adopt City Connect jerseys for a cash grab, knowing the navy blue pinstripes are a fitting tradition.
    — Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • While some provide a more immersive experience than the original, others clearly lack any substantial improvements and are mostly content to be cynical cash grabs.
    — George Yang, Rolling Stone, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Hell, the much more traditional sequel is frequently a lazy cash grab, an attempt to recapture lighting in a bottle or simply milk a few additional bucks out of audiences looking for a risk-free night out.
    — Jordan Hoffman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 June 2026
  • The law was reformed in 2024 through a legislative deal after a pressure campaign by business groups who said the law was being exploited for cash grabs by predatory attorneys.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Always an artist to follow his muse, the 2023 show felt more like a cash grab, featuring a parade of hits engineered more to please the average Springsteen fan than an artistic journey.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Fortunately, this follow-up arriving four years later is no mere cash grab, but rather an even more stylistically and thematically ambitious effort that mostly succeeds in its aspirations.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Still, critics broadly dismissed the release as a kid-friendly cash grab — an assumption that was no doubt fueled by the presence of A-listers Jason Momoa and Jack Black.
    — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 19 Dec. 2025
  • With new oversight, strong federal leadership, and an end to municipal cash grabs, the Commonwealth can finally deliver on the promise of a stable and prosperous energy system.
    — Dan Eberhart, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • If the critics are right, and the technology turns Hollywood into more of an assembly line for derivative, soulless cash grabs, the same people urging the business to accept AI may regret not putting up a fight.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Proponents say these companies let investors gain exposure to cryptocurrencies not readily accessible within their brokerage accounts, but detractors say these firms are a quick cash grab and will eventually collapse.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2025

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