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
He sued, alleging a cartel and sales monopoly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
Wiener said both bills are important for helping individuals and communities “to not be trapped in the monopoly utility model that is so expensive.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
And early next year, a trial is scheduled to begin in a case that accuses Amazon of illegally maintaining a monopoly in online retail.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
Just as Lawrence had warned Sproul that the cyclotron diaspora was bound to end Berkeley’s monopoly on cheap grad-student labor, it was now ending Berkeleys monopoly on cyclotron technology.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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“Corporations doing these monopolies are keeping the audience from having access to a variety of things they would like,” says Ellis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
AI monopolies is obsolete, if it was ever justified.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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
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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