monopolist

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Recent Examples of monopolist 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 As opposed to a monopolist with Chrome, Google has been adapting it to a future that in no way resembles the present. John Tamny, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025 This is the wrongest would-be train monopolist George Russell has ever been, and that’s saying something for a man who fired the one person who knows all his business secrets. Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2025 Which brings me back to Musk, whose businesses are fast becoming among the government’s largest contract monopolists. Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 3 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for monopolist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monopolist
Noun
  • Long-term holders — defined as those who have held onto their coins for at least 155 days, or about five months — were largely inactive from February to April but have turned into sellers in recent weeks, Compass Point analyst Ed Engel said in a note Tuesday.
    Dylan Butts, CNBC, 4 June 2026
  • Stacks of pancakes and with sausage, bacon or livermush are also top sellers.
    Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026
Noun
  • These six cities stand out for street food vendors who make vegetarian and vegan eating easy, affordable and genuinely delicious.
    Lauren Schuster, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
  • The car, according to the listing, was maintained by Jaguar's Kensington branch in the 90s and then sold in February 1997 to a private vendor, just six months before Diana's death in a Paris car crash.
    Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • People typically use them to keep the house smelling consistently fresh, to replicate the signature scents found in hotels, spas and luxury retailers, to neutralize odors from pets, cooking or smoke, or to set a specific mood — relaxing, clean, seasonal or otherwise.
    Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Charlotte Observer, 8 June 2026
  • Amid a dense thicket of timber-and-metal stalls where secondhand retailers ordinarily hawked their wares, a runner of red-and-green astroturf cut a path toward a stage draped in the tricolor of the Ghanaian flag.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • But his role went far beyond storekeeper, Hassane said.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • 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
  • Senait Dereje, a 37-year-old shopkeeper, is certain her vote matters.
    ABC News, ABC News, 1 June 2026
  • Many were hardware merchants, shopkeepers, even doctors who had bought an early automobile to make house calls and decided to try selling a few more on the side, taking a good horse for $100 trade-in value and moving a couple of Fords a year.
    Eric Moskowitz, The Atlantic, 31 May 2026
Noun
  • Costco, the discount wholesaler, is the most challenging.
    Donna Vickroy, Chicago Tribune, 29 May 2026
  • Born in Nagano in 1932, Suzuki joined retailer Ito-Yokado in 1963 after working at a book wholesaler.
    Reuters 20 hr ago, CNN Money, 25 May 2026
Noun
  • Buying bonds in the secondary market, at least 100 at a time, and holding to maturity will result in middlemen costs of more like $6 a year per $100,000 invested.
    William Baldwin, Forbes.com, 6 June 2026
  • Game Point went to Greenlight Commodities, a specialist in renewable energy credits that has shifted to serving as a middleman for institutions looking to place bets on prediction markets.
    Liz Hoffman, semafor.com, 4 June 2026
Noun
  • The Climb ultimately collapsed, owing furious crew and suppliers more than £300,000 ($400,000) in unpaid wages and invoices.
    Jake Kanter, Deadline, 3 June 2026
  • Last year, Republic National CEO Bob Hendrickson said the exit was due to rising operational costs and supplier changes.
    Desiree Mathurin, Charlotte Observer, 3 June 2026

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“Monopolist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monopolist. Accessed 10 Jun. 2026.

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