monopolist

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Recent Examples of monopolist On Monday, the government argued in a landmark antitrust trial that both acquisitions — now considered among the greatest in Silicon Valley history — were the actions of a monopolist guarding his turf. Mike Isaac, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025 Bottom line Jim said this acquisition does not pose an antitrust threat but may draw regulatory scrutiny because Google was deemed a monopolist by the Justice Department under former President Joe Biden . Paulina Likos, CNBC, 18 Mar. 2025 In that matter, the FTC sought to restore competition by unwinding an anticompetitive merger of two hospitals that created a regional monopolist in Georgia. Alden Abbott, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 The United States Department of Justice is demanding that Google sell off its Chrome browser after a court ruling in August found the company to be a monopolist in the search market. Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for monopolist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monopolist
Noun
  • Gary Perel and George Sechrist of ALO Property Group represented the seller of the 231 and 235 South Meridian properties.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 25 July 2025
  • The sailboat and the seller were both located in California.
    Terry Ward, CNN Money, 25 July 2025
Noun
  • Cars, drivers, pit crews, vendors, entertainers and even sponsors could be showcased over a couple of days along our magnificent lakefront.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2025
  • Shop The Bradenton Public Market Every Saturday from October through May, Bradenton’s Old Main Street transforms into a bustling market filled with more than 100 vendors offering all kinds of local wares—from fresh produce to art.
    Tara Massouleh McCay, Southern Living, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • In 2017, following an overwhelming number of complaints from visitors and storekeepers about vulgar language and intimidation tactics, the city had to once again enforce an ordinance to keep the hawkers in separate areas.
    Richard Grant, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Although competition among storekeepers can be fierce, Mateo sees U.B.A. as a marketplace of ideas.
    H. C. Wilentz, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • But the strategy has backfired, and only made the shopkeepers poorer, and angrier.
    Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 22 July 2025
  • John Hurt played the Diagon Alley shopkeeper in the films, and Anton Lesser will inherit the role for the series.
    Julia Moore, People.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • That’s also been evident in the producer price index, where the rate of increase in a measure of margins for wholesalers and retailers has slowed sharply in recent months.
    Bloomberg News, Chicago Tribune, 23 July 2025
  • Some escrows would even have three or four wholesalers raising the price of the home in increments from the $100,000 contract price to a $200,000 closing price.
    Christopher A. Combs, AZCentral.com, 22 July 2025
Noun
  • The rise of big-box retail corporations such as Walmart, which were big enough to handle their own distribution logistics, all but eliminated middlemen like the Willises from the cosmetics supply chain by the early 2000s.
    Kelli María Korducki, thehustle.co, 11 July 2025
  • This could help solve the mystery of how supermassive black holes grew so fast in the early universe, by favoring mechanisms that skip dying stars as cosmic middlemen.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 July 2025

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“Monopolist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monopolist. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.

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