monopolist

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Recent Examples of monopolist In that matter, the FTC sought to restore competition by unwinding an anticompetitive merger of two hospitals that created a regional monopolist in Georgia. Alden Abbott, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 The United States Department of Justice is demanding that Google sell off its Chrome browser after a court ruling in August found the company to be a monopolist in the search market. Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024 Consequently, the payment market, where new competitors consistently enter and thrive, is hardly one that is dominated by a monopolist. Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 Abuses by 19th century monopolists led to government policies curbing their power. Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for monopolist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monopolist
Noun
  • But while still high, mortgage rates have somehow stabilized, and homebuyers and sellers have gotten used to them.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 June 2025
  • Job Layoffs Toy seller Hasbro HAS.O has cut 3% of its global workforce in its latest cost-cutting effort amid higher U.S. tariffs on toys from China.
    Ananya Mariam Rajesh, USA Today, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • Billed as a game-changer for AI integration, MCP is gaining traction among vendors including Microsoft, OpenAI and Google.
    Adrian Bridgwater, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • That includes obstacle courses, games, face painting, family fitness demos and classes, water play, and local vendors.
    John Wenzel, Denver Post, 19 June 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • His parents, Frederick and Phyllis, were shopkeepers.
    Chris Koseluk, HollywoodReporter, 9 June 2025
  • When a shopkeeper sent a young employee to pick up a pallet for sale on the internet, the employee was robbed at gunpoint of six thousand dollars.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • If approved, the settlement would be among the largest in a wave of lawsuits over the past decade as governments and others sought to hold drugmakers, wholesalers and pharmacies accountable for the opioid epidemic that started rising in the years after OxyContin hit the market in 1996.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Chicago Tribune, 20 June 2025
  • Bags of potatoes grown in the United Kingdom at the D & F McCarthy Ltd. fresh fruit and vegetable wholesaler in Norwich, UK, on Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023.
    Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Genius will remain the middleman between the NFL’s official data feed and sportsbooks looking to build markets off the fastest possible in-game information.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 11 June 2025
  • UCHealth has sued thousands of patients using third parties or debt collection middlemen in recent years, a practice that is examined in new research by academics at the George Washington University Law School, Stanford University’s Clinical Excellence Research Center and Fisher’s group.
    Gretchen Morgenson, NBC news, 30 May 2025

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“Monopolist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monopolist. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.

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