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Jelly Roll tried to strike a conciliatory tone, telling viewers that no political party has a monopoly on “human dignity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"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

That lasted until he moved to secure the same monopoly for himself, in part by stranding passengers on a competing line during a frigid night in Albany.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 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

For one lively half century Pennsylvania had a virtual monopoly on one of the most valuable products in the world, oil, and an overwhelmingly dominant role in the production of a second, coal.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

He stood for enterprise, individual liberty and free trade, and against the tyranny of state-sponsored monopolies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

The practice “may distort competition, stifle innovation, and potentially lead to monopolies or market concentration in strategic sectors,” as the Center for Strategic and International Studies put it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 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

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