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

When Cornelius Vanderbilt took steps to break up a railroad monopoly along the Hudson River in 1867, he was praised as a public benefactor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Yet for the titans of American energy, the prospect of a state-backed company with a virtual monopoly over 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven reserves injects new uncertainty into the possibility of investing there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

We snuck into each other’s rooms by night to trade secrets, argue, commiserate, spy, and continue chess games and monopoly games that had begun days earlier.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

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

Department of Justice to investigate and break up giant industrial monopolies, became law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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

Steyer said he would reduce costs by taking on special interests and bringing about structural change and breaking up monopolies.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 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