UNDERSELL Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

undersell

verb

Definition of undersell

as in to monopolize

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While customers drawn by the deal monopolized tables to gorge on order after order of shrimp, restaurants ran out of shrimp and turned away regular customers.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
But the retaliation prompted Compass to file an antitrust suit, claiming that Zillow was the one trying to monopolize listings.

— Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of monopolize

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Reactor, which emerged from stealth in May, develops software to make world models run faster and cheaper, and sells a cloud service that manages the computing capacity.

— Wen Shao, Fortune, 6 Oct. 2026
Within five seconds, there’s a bid on the table for $20 million, and the two decide to sell their knowledge to Google.

— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of sell

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Massive stockpiles of methamphetamine smuggled onto the islands by cartels have spurred a widespread addiction crisis, seen as a key driver of an HIV epidemic that Fiji recently declared a national emergency.

— Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2026
Supplies are also strained because medicines are smuggled to neighboring Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, where prices are higher, state media reported.

— ABC News, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2026

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And like Farrar’s Twitter character, dangling on that final, hopeful comma, the president’s critics still return to speculating that this next scandal might just be the one that delivers comeuppance.

— David Mack, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Katie Couric Media, The New York Times, and Politico have speculated about a 2028 Warnock campaign.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of speculate

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Lula’s coalition filed a legal complaint requesting that the avatar’s profiles be taken down, on the grounds that the anonymous accounts peddled false or distorted information that could mislead voters.

— Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2026
The protests were widely broadcast on state media, in sharp contrast to Assad’s days, when state television peddled disinformation to discredit them, including claims that the protests were staged from faraway studios in Qatar.

— Tala Alrajjal, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026

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