monopoly

The suit argues that owning the Golden Globes would “solidify a vertical and horizontal monopoly on the awards market.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

It rejected the assumption that both shared: that public safety must remain an institutional monopoly.

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

The difference is that history is no longer written solely by the winners, and today’s industrialists no longer have a monopoly on shaping the narrative.

From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026

America doesn’t have a monopoly on the world’s hottest stocks, but it does have the deepest-pocketed investors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

“I’m not pissed at you for letting her go. But I’m tired of you acting like you were the only guy who ever wanted her. Like you had some monopoly on liking her,” Takumi answered.

From "Looking for Alaska" by John Green

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

And regulators can be expected to take the same attitude toward suspected monopolies as the Ohio Supreme Court did in the 1892 Standard Oil ruling.

From Barron's ● May 2, 2026

She also would audit all corporate tax incentives and push for a statewide public utility to replace private monopolies.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Band organization is often described as “egalitarian”: there is no formalized social stratification into upper and lower classes, no formalized or hereditary leadership, and no formalized monopolies of information and decision making.

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