Thesaurus results for MONOPOLIZATION

monopolize

verb

mə-ˈnä-pə-ˌlīz

as in to consume

to have complete control over it is illegal in the United States to monopolize an entire industry you shouldn't monopolize the exercise equipment while others are waiting to use it

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Recent Examples of monopolize Yemen monopolized the coffee trade for around 200 years until Dutch merchants smuggled coffee seeds to Indonesia and began growing plants there. —

ABC News, 2 May 2026 Henson, who does a lot with a character that doesn’t monopolize the spotlight, touches little Zonia’s hair or steals a subtle glance at her now and then. —

Sara Holdren, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2026 Rumanes’ suit was filed a week after a jury in New York found Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit had illegally monopolized the event ticketing market for years. —

Gretchen Morgenson, NBC news, 24 Apr. 2026 While the other males in the Willowbank Wildlife Reserve’s Kea group spend lots of time squabbling and making threat displays, Bruce is free to wander the aviary and monopolize feeding stations and prime perches, the study reports. —

Elizabeth Anne Brown, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for monopolize

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Could the chicken from which the thigh and breast meat came, have consumed, weeks earlier, a toxic amount of psychedelics?

— Weike Wang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
Thankfully, cleaning a mattress isn't hard to do or very time consuming.

— Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 16 May 2026