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

There seems to be a stylistic monopoly at work among the streamers of “original content” that renders innovative storytelling—and any semblance of cinema—invalid.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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

For decades, U.S. and other Western companies enjoyed something close to a monopoly on cutting-edge science.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

The United States' brief monopoly on the world's most powerful weapon came to a sudden, shocking end.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau

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

Department of Justice to investigate and break up giant industrial monopolies, became law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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