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

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

Wiener said both bills are important for helping individuals and communities “to not be trapped in the monopoly utility model that is so expensive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 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

Ultimately, one tends to avoid him, for the universal characteristic of children is to assume that they have a monopoly on trouble, and therefore a monopoly on you.

From "The Fire Next Time" by James Baldwin

“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

Breaking these monopolies will need to go beyond what the Education Department can do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

A simpler derivatives contract could hurt some of CME’s and Cboe’s most popular products, which critics characterize as monopolies.

From Barron's ● Jul. 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