oligopoly

Example Sentences

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Seagate and Western Digital maintain an oligopoly in the hard-disk drive market, committing to disciplined unit capacity additions.

From Barron's • Mar. 30, 2026

Evercore calls this process “the erosion of oligopoly rents.”

From MarketWatch • Feb. 24, 2026

"The problem with this industry is that the supply chain is an oligopoly and sometimes even a duopoly."

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

Instead, we have an oligopoly of dominant banks that issue them: JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, American Express, Citigroup and Capital One, which together account for about 70% of all transactions.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026

OTTAWA—The Bank of Canada’s No. 2 official endorsed a competition shakeup in the highly concentrated financial-services industry, saying the country’s banking sector is an oligopoly and changes could help lift Canada’s prolonged productivity slump.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025