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Federal Trade Commission is launching an antitrust probe into the company over whether it will try to monopolize the CPU market after launching its own chip.

From MarketWatch ● May 18, 2026

Watts says you may already be attached once you notice the signs—they start a fight after a big event in the partner’s life, give backhanded compliments, monopolize the conversation—but it’s not worth sticking around.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025

Understanding just how China came to monopolize the rare-earth industry can help investors anticipate what’s coming next, making it easier to invest in the critical—and exceedingly volatile—sector.

From Barron's ● Nov. 21, 2025

On one side was Continental and Northwest, which claimed larger rival American Airlines had illegally lowered fares to monopolize certain markets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025

The ingredients for the visibilizer had to be delivered, and the sooner the better, but the baroness clearly intended to monopolize the rest of her morning.

From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood

Section 2 states that any company which monopolizes or attempts to monopolize a market is guilty of a felony.

From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2024

Department of Justice in an epic antitrust case, alleging that Google monopolizes online advertising technology.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

On platforms such as Zoom, the screen monopolizes our interactions.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2022

“If the dominant male monopolizes the matings, then the effective population size is much smaller than it would be if all sexually mature males were able to mate,” she said.

From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2021

The difficulty is in procuring transportation, and the government monopolizes the railroads and canals.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones

With hiring managers prioritizing in-person work and AI able to tackle routine tasks that traditionally monopolized entry-level workers’ time, one could argue being agreeable is paramount.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

This pattern suggests that wealth and authority were not monopolized by a single powerful leader.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 30, 2026

Notably, “the storification of reality,” as Mr. Brooks puts it, has coincided with a decline of storytelling in the literary novel, which once monopolized the field.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

But the task of depicting a future Los Angeles hasn’t been monopolized by fiction writers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025

Girls cried because so-and-so wouldn’t sit by them at lunch, or because their best friend had a new boyfriend who monopolized her time.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Though the businessman and Mormon missionary never mined for gold himself, he became California’s first millionaire by monopolizing the sale of supplies to those who did.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

That rule was designed to prevent any entity from monopolizing state funds for vehicles that weren’t ready for production and to provide a level playing field for smaller manufacturers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 9, 2026

At issue was the definition of the market that Meta was allegedly monopolizing.

From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025

Once guidelines changed to make it easier to detect monopolizing behavior, the FTC initiated a series of lawsuits to go after that behavior.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2025

His quiet, probing questions kept me talking freely, forgetting, in the dim light of the storm, to be embarrassed for monopolizing the conversation.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer