How to Use anticompetitive in a Sentence

anticompetitive

adjective

• Even so, the decades-old standard is not a free pass for anticompetitive behavior.
  — Michael R. Strain, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• But the devil’s in the detail, as seen in the news this week that Google killing these cookies might be anticompetitive.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• Microsoft will need to prove that the deal is neither anticompetitive nor harmful to new firms or consumers.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022
• Critics say the companies have grown in part because of a range of anticompetitive practices.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2020
• The question at hand is whether the deals Google has struck with Apple and others are anticompetitive.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
• Fubo had alleged in its lawsuit that Venu was anticompetitive and would upend its business.
  — Lillian Rizzo, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
• Facebook and Google, for instance, could have a higher bar to prove that any mergers aren’t anticompetitive.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 11 June 2021
• Both of them encourage me to see how a company famous for low prices can still behave in an anticompetitive manner.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
• The court said that government failed to prove those purchases were anticompetitive.
  — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 17 Apr. 2025
• There's a greater store overlap here than in many other states, which could raise anticompetitive concerns for regulators.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• Epic faces accusations of anticompetitive practices in two lawsuits from the past year.
  — Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2025
• The judge says that while Apple isn’t a monopoly, its conduct is anticompetitive.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 Sep. 2021
• Epic, meanwhile, has been pulling out all the stops to argue that Apple’s tight grip on the app store is anticompetitive, greedy, and overbearing.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 25 May 2021
• Challenges to the health insurance deals would be the latest in a string of suits against what the government perceives to be anticompetitive mergers.
  — Leslie Picker and Reed Abelson, New York Times, 19 July 2016
• Nothing anticompetitive to see here, Williams said.
  — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 9 Feb. 2026
• Amazon has long denied that its policies are anticompetitive, and objected to Racine's suit the day it was announced.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 28 May 2021
• In a 2018 decision, the court ruled that in this kind of market, plaintiffs need to show the anticompetitive harm spans both sides.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 1 Oct. 2024
• Observers expect the court to, at a minimum, place limits on these kinds of payments, which Mehta ruled were anticompetitive.
  — Billy Perrigo, Time, 29 Aug. 2025
• That would mean federal court rulings based on the government’s anticompetitive concerns would no longer block the deal from proceeding.
  — Jef Feeley, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
• Thus, there is direct evidence in the form of party admissions that the merger will have anticompetitive effects.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Hoping to thwart predictable anticompetitive risks, the EC has called for public comments.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
• Yelp, which has been shouting about Google's allegedly anticompetitive practices in local search for many years, was quick to respond to the ruling.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
• Google has been fined three times in the past two years for anticompetitive business practices, resulting in penalties totaling more than $9 billion.
  — Adam Satariano, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• Worse, the minority draft agrees that the burden of proof needs to be reversed and that companies should have to prove that their mergers and acquisitions are not anticompetitive.
  — Iain Murray, National Review, 14 Oct. 2020
• Google is framing this not as a manifestation of its anticompetitive bent, but as genuine concern for user privacy.
  — Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 29 June 2026
• The two sides settled the suit in 2014, with eBay agreeing to not enter any anticompetitive hiring agreements for five years.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• Meta has hit back about being targeted in Apple’s complaint and says the iPhone maker is being anticompetitive.
  — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 19 Dec. 2024
• Paramount’s lead attorney, Jeffrey Kessler, argued that the states had failed to make the necessary case that the deal is anticompetitive.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 17 July 2026
• The nub of the case is that Facebook built and maintained a monopoly, largely through anticompetitive acquisitions.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
• Though none so far have resulted in a breakup, Apple and Google are both under court orders that restrict anticompetitive business practices.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 1 June 2026