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To define the contours of a market, the courts rely on a hypothetical monopolist test.—Hal Singer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2026 Meanwhile, with no respect for copyright or intellectual property, Mark Zuckerberg and the Google monopolists Larry Page and Sergey Brin have cornered the advertising market and decimated the newspaper and magazine business.—John R. MacArthur, Air Mail, 8 Nov. 2025 In the anti-monopolists’ view, media consolidation after the 1996 Telecommunications Act made Carr’s actions inevitable.—David Weigel, semafor.com, 19 Sep. 2025 So not only did Google walk away with a slap on the wrist—this opinion also propped up another monopolist, Apple, that is currently getting sued by the very same DOJ.—Joel Thayer, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for monopolist