monopolized

past tense of monopolize
as in consumed
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 monopolized In April, Brinkema ruled that Google illegally monopolized ad exchanges – which conduct lightning fast auctions that connect advertisers to websites with ad space – as well as tools used by sites to manage the inventory of space for sale, known as ad servers. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 Sep. 2025 Their words painted a portrait of someone who micromanaged, monopolized the spotlight and rarely recognized individual contributions. Bill Koch, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Judge Amit Mehta ruled last year that Google illegally monopolized online search and advertising by paying companies like Apple and Samsung billions of dollars a year to install Google as the default search engine on smartphones and web browsers. Jessica Guynn, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025 The nuts in particular could travel well and were highly prized in China, India, and Europe for more than a millennia before the Dutch monopolized the Spice Islands in the early seventeenth century. Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 Aug. 2025 Meanwhile, Google’s own fate is up in the air as a federal judge weighs what remedies should follow from the 2024 ruling that Google had illegally monopolized the search market. Dave Smith, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2025 Early modern Europe was not an ideal place to enforce intellectual property rights, which in those days existed only when technologies could be secretively monopolized by a guild. Niall Ferguson, Foreign Affairs, 15 Aug. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monopolized
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  • So many people approach those dark moments and can't get out of them and are consumed by them.
    Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Republicans have opposed public funding for meals consumed by students whose families can afford to pay for the food.
    Clara Hendrickson, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • Paul Thomas Anderson has always been possessed by the spirit of revolution.
    Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The devices possessed the capability to transmit up to 30 million text messages a minute, according to The Associated Press.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 30 Sep. 2025
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  • Between 2011 and 2022, roughly 380 Kansas drivers had the designation on the front of their license changed, according to Appeals Court Judge Karen Arnold-Burger, who authored the June ruling against Kobach.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The remaining 10,000 had no income cap.
    Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Oct. 2025
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  • Yes, this location is independently owned by Sanjay Patel, under the MKE Burgers West Allis Inc.
    Adrienne Davis, jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Around 1915, the family left behind their life in La Crosse, where George owned and operated a local grocery store, to move to a farm outside of Plainfield, Wis.
    Yasmeen Hamadeh, PEOPLE, 5 Oct. 2025

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“Monopolized.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monopolized. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.

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