monopolists

Definition of monopolistsnext
plural of monopolist

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Noun
  • Affected raw oysters were sold in Washington, while the Manila clams were distributed to restaurants and retailers in California, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Nevada, New York, Oregon and Washington, according to the FDA.
    Jasmine Mendez Follow, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • In this context — and as key retailers like Ssense falter — Rusadze’s business has contracted in recent years.
    Lucy Maguire, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Zillow’s latest housing market report shows that this spring is a promising time for both buyers and sellers.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Aldeyra Therapeutics is complaining about short sellers in the run-up to an FDA approval decision.
    Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The resolution names no specific vendors, although some board members and public speakers made accusations against specific businesses.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • More than 20 vendors will be in attendance, which is double than last year’s event and the largest in club history, organizers said.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • And, those middlemen have been taking their cues from a bidding process that often has too few participants to keep prices low.
    Noah Dormady, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Eliminating drug-pricing middlemen?
    Ken Alltucker, USA Today, 16 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Protests broke out first in Tehran’s bazaars, as merchants and shopkeepers took to the streets in anger.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Feb. 2026
  • The speech invoked a Václav Havel essay about the hollowness of Communist ideology, embodied by the revolutionary slogans in shopkeepers’ windows that nobody actually believed.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 23 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The sweeping changes, if passed by the state legislature, would consolidate all Medicaid billing under a fee-for-service model through which the state directly pays providers for services rendered.
    Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Leidos will work with several major commercial providers, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 14 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The arguments about whether or not the drug peddlers should be banished becomes the central narrative thread.
    Murtada Elfadl, Variety, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The brothers gaze upon commonplace sights of crowds, peddlers, and buskers with fascination and wonder.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • And, as geopolitical competition intensifies around critical minerals, countries like Zimbabwe may gain leverage by positioning themselves as alternative suppliers in an industry still dominated by China.
    Ray Mwayera, semafor.com, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Brito said some airports have proportionately higher jet fuel consumption, pointing to Singapore and Frankfurt, so concentration and distance from suppliers create an additional layer of market jitters that is reflected in current prices.
    Ashley J. DiMella, FOXNews.com, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Monopolists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monopolists. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.

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