as in to monopolize
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Without that market competition, the plaintiffs argued, gamers were coerced into paying higher prices, effectively allowing Sony to monopolize the sale of its digital PlayStation games.—
Drew Pittock,
USA Today,
4 May 2026 -
Yemen monopolized the coffee trade for around 200 years until Dutch merchants smuggled coffee seeds to Indonesia and began growing plants there.—
Dee-Ann Durbin,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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Tickets for this year’s Met Gala are reportedly selling at $100,000 each, with some tables starting at $350,000.—
Dalila Muata,
NBC news,
5 May 2026
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Abbott thanked the children who sold his newspaper on street corners by throwing a parade in their honor.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
5 May 2026
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What matters, after all, is that feeling of being engrossed in a good story.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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Sitting on the dais between her husband and pregnant White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the first lady appears to be engrossed in conversation.—
Joy Press,
Vanity Fair,
28 Apr. 2026
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The Australian policy of refusing to allow boat arrivals to settle has largely ended people smuggling from Southeast Asian ports in rickety fishing boats that had once thrived.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 May 2026
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Yemen monopolized the coffee trade for around 200 years until Dutch merchants smuggled coffee seeds to Indonesia and began growing plants there.—
Dee-Ann Durbin,
Los Angeles Times,
4 May 2026
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At the time, Shehorn’s friends speculated that she had been stabbed more than 20 times.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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Because the stories are going to keep coming out, speculating what’s in there.—
NBC news,
NBC news,
10 May 2026
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Federal agents swarmed a California park Wednesday as part of a sweeping operation targeting an infamous open-air drug market notorious for peddling fentanyl and methamphetamine.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2026
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Yet this is precisely the idea that the Enhanced Games is peddling—the fantasy that what Proud or Collins takes to break a world record, at a different dose, might make a man in his 70s more mobile, energized, and maybe even hotter.—
Clara Molot,
Vanity Fair,
30 Apr. 2026
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“Undersell.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undersell. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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