monopoly
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"He's trying to get into Number 10 as if it's a stop on a monopoly board," the Liberal Democrat added.
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026
That lasted until he moved to secure the same monopoly for himself, in part by stranding passengers on a competing line during a frigid night in Albany.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
There seems to be a stylistic monopoly at work among the streamers of “original content” that renders innovative storytelling—and any semblance of cinema—invalid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
In addition to the antitrust case against Amazon's alleged online retail monopoly, federal US regulators have launched four additional competition lawsuits against tech giants since 2020.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Foreign-based executives of the Korean National Insurance Corporation, the state monopoly that orchestrated the fraud, prepared a special birthday gift.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
He later took aim at bloated government monopolies posing as state companies, furloughing tens of millions and courting foreign investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Landlords would only accept tenants who applied using a broker, which meant many brokers had monopolies on full blocks of apartments, and sometimes whole neighborhoods.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
When Congress first created the FTC in the 1910s, it recognized that the agency’s mandates of protecting consumers and fighting monopolies should not be overly swayed by partisan politics.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
That all spells exciting times for sleepy, regulated natural monopolies that control the last kilometer to the customer.
From Barron's ● May 27, 2026
Band organization is often described as “egalitarian”: there is no formalized social stratification into upper and lower classes, no formalized or hereditary leadership, and no formalized monopolies of information and decision making.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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