monopolist

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Recent Examples of monopolist The Department of Justice is demanding that corrective measures be imposed after its antitrust case against Google found the tech giant to be a monopolist in general search. Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 30 July 2025 Shifting costs In much of the U.S., utilities are monopolists. Eliza Martin, The Conversation, 5 June 2025 The remedy phase of Google's antitrust trial is underway, with the government angling to realign Google's business after the company was ruled a search monopolist. ArsTechnica, 22 Apr. 2025 On Monday, the government argued in a landmark antitrust trial that both acquisitions — now considered among the greatest in Silicon Valley history — were the actions of a monopolist guarding his turf. Mike Isaac, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for monopolist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monopolist
Noun
  • Brands frequently encounter obstacles, including the requirement for notarized test purchases and the treatment of each infringement as a separate case, even when multiple listings from the same seller are involved.
    Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This imbalance between supply and demand, with sellers outnumbering buyers by more than 500,000, has helped shift many markets in favor of the latter.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • After a photo of Gilbert showing her inside a crate began to spread online, people reported the vendor to local law enforcement, prompting an evaluation by Warren County Animal Control.
    Lillian Metzmeier, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The families were then confronted by the unpaid vendors, sometimes on the day of the event, prosecutors said.
    Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Halloween is just over a month away, and Kentucky retailers are already stocked up on candy.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • The chemicals and compounds the discount retailer intends to eliminate encompasses the breadth of food manufacturing.
    Jonel Aleccia, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Although competition among storekeepers can be fierce, Mateo sees U.B.A. as a marketplace of ideas.
    H. C. Wilentz, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • In 2017, following an overwhelming number of complaints from visitors and storekeepers about vulgar language and intimidation tactics, the city had to once again enforce an ordinance to keep the hawkers in separate areas.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • In August 2023, Otano was found guilty of the armed kidnapping of Jose Ortega-Gutierrez, a man known to police and considered a nuisance by shopkeepers at a Hialeah strip mall.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 17 Sep. 2025
  • In the city of Bukavu in eastern Congo, Alain Mukumiro argues in a small wooden hut with a shopkeeper who refuses to take his money.
    JANVIER BARHAHIGA, Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The shop forwards your order to a manufacturer or wholesaler.
    Kurt Knutsson may earn a commission if you buy through our referral links., FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
  • Reclamation manages more than 600 dams and reservoirs, including the Hoover and Glen Canyon dams, and is also the nation's largest water wholesaler.
    Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The artist needs no cerebral middleman to move the motif from the world to the page.
    Harmon Siegel, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Insurance coverage, pharmacy benefit managers, and middlemen all play a role in final costs.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Supply chain pains Raj Kandola from the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce said that suppliers and companies further down the chain are most vulnerable to the knock-on effects of the shutdown.
    Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 4 Oct. 2025
  • After 3 1/2 years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European countries like this one — Kyiv's backers and military suppliers — are nervous the Kremlin could bring the conflict their way.
    Teri Schultz, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025

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“Monopolist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monopolist. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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