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In rare cases where a challenger does displace an incumbent, all that results is a new monopolist replacing the old one—the monopoly itself remains.—Mordecai Kurz, Time, 20 Apr. 2026 Economists have long observed that monopolists encourage competition on their platform only up to a point, said Vanderbilt antitrust professor Rebecca Haw Allensworth.—Deirdre Bosa,jasmine Wu, CNBC, 31 Mar. 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for monopolist