How to Use monopoly in a Sentence

monopoly

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  • The government passed laws intended to break up monopolies.
  • Even in most of the U.S., the police have a legal monopoly on the use of force.
    — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Now the crisis is over and the blob wants its monopoly back.
    — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The fans hope this is a turning point in breaking up a monopoly, the lawyers said.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The struggle against the de facto monopoly spans years.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • By the way, there is a wider problem in the region of establishing states that have a monopoly on the use of force.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • One of the main features of the effort is the possible end of UNOS’s monopoly on the key aspects of the network.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That is now changing and so, too, the notion that any one gender holds a monopoly on being the object of the gaze.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The story of the second decade was the unraveling of that monopoly.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
  • There was a lot of resentment against the East India Co.’s monopoly over tea.
    — Arun A.k., Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • Each country has a monopoly of its own leagues of football or.
    — Michael Gale, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • To Amazon, this proves the online giant is not a monopoly.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
  • True, most of the results come from YouTube, since Google pretty much has a monopoly on online video, too.
    — PCMAG, 9 Feb. 2023
  • At the time, the DOJ accused Dentsply of maintaining a monopoly in the artificial teeth business.
    — Emma Roth, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010, a deal that raised concerns of a monopoly.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
  • China essentially has a monopoly on every step beyond the first phase of digging ores out of the ground.
    — Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2023
  • And then the next thing that’s going to have to get broken up is the iMessage monopoly, particularly because of the way young kids message.
    — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • What should rightfully have been his was pocketed by the Soviet state, which had a monopoly on the copyright.
    — Armen Sarkissian, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Or even just coming over for monopoly to have some company.
    — Charmaine Patterson, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2023
  • And while the supermarkets have long held the monopoly on a plentiful supply of cheap meat, there are areas in which the butcher remains king (or queen).
    — Olivia Potts, Longreads, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The men have a near monopoly on betting during the regular season, though more women’s games have been made available.
    — Sun Sentinel, 31 Mar. 2023
  • The United States may need tariffs and other tools to ensure that China does not establish a monopoly on these chips.
    — Peter E. Harrell, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
  • The monopoly in turn provided a revenue stream for the bribes, prosecutors said.
    — Faris Tanyos, CBS News, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Making money Many of these AIs are created and trained at enormous expense by some of the largest tech monopolies.
    — Bruce Schneier, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • The change would end what had been a longstanding practice at the agency that manages the state’s liquor monopoly and address a scandal that ensnared six top managers last year.
    — oregonlive, 16 May 2023
  • Nearly 30 years ago, Pearl Jam sued Ticketmaster, which the band said had a monopoly on concert tickets.
    — Ashley Wu, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2023
  • The oldest of the Asian parks, Tokyo Disneyland, racked up strong numbers from its opening, boosted by its early monopoly as the only Disney park in the region.
    — Mark Schilling, Variety, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Should the United States attempt to maintain its monopoly position as the sole atomic power?
    — Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2023
  • The case is scheduled to go to trial Sept. 12, potentially kicking off years of courtroom battles over monopoly claims filed against the tech giants.
    — David McCabe, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2023
  • How can a service (early cancer detection) that doesn’t yet exist amount to a monopoly?
    — John Tamny, wsj.com, 27 Apr. 2023

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