monopoly

"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

Technology destroyed their monopoly on information and decimated their business models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 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

A firm can secure this monopoly power through patents, but that wasn’t the case with the second-line TB drugs.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

“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

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

To prevent some economic actors from having undue power over markets, we need to revitalize the tools we created in the late 1800s to fight monopolies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

Why does the Japanese food-processing industry, like the German beer industry, consist of small companies with local monopolies?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond