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

He sued, alleging a cartel and sales monopoly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 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

Writing was no longer a monopoly of the priests and scribes.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“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

He later took aim at bloated government monopolies posing as state companies, furloughing tens of millions and courting foreign investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 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

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