How to Use anticompetitive in a Sentence

anticompetitive

adjective
Definition of anticompetitivenext
  • Antitrust regulators have vowed to clamp down on anticompetitive behavior by big online platforms.
    — Adam Satariano, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • At the center of the controversy over its anticompetitive behavior is its role as both marketplace owner and competitor.
    — NBC News, 1 May 2020
  • Still, investors might have been more concerned if more of the questions focused specifically on anticompetitive behavior rather than off-topic queries, Pachter said.
    — Washington Post, 30 July 2020
  • The rules on up to $50 billion in aid prevent what is normally considered anticompetitive behavior.
    — Frances Yoon, WSJ, 1 Apr. 2020
  • But the devil’s in the detail, as seen in the news this week that Google killing these cookies might be anticompetitive.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
  • The question at hand is whether the deals Google has struck with Apple and others are anticompetitive.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Epic, meanwhile, has been pulling out all the stops to argue that Apple’s tight grip on the app store is anticompetitive, greedy, and overbearing.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 25 May 2021
  • The two sides settled the suit in 2014, with eBay agreeing to not enter any anticompetitive hiring agreements for five years.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Even so, the decades-old standard is not a free pass for anticompetitive behavior.
    — Michael R. Strain, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
  • Facebook and Google, for instance, could have a higher bar to prove that any mergers aren’t anticompetitive.
    — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 11 June 2021
  • Microsoft will need to prove that the deal is neither anticompetitive nor harmful to new firms or consumers.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022
  • The charge comes one day after Epic Games, the maker of the video game giant Fortnite, sued Apple for anticompetitive behavior.
    — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2020
  • The request is a step the agency takes when reviewing whether a merger could be anticompetitive under U.S. law.
    — Matthew Daly, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • Critics say the companies have grown in part because of a range of anticompetitive practices.
    — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2020
  • Amazon has long denied that its policies are anticompetitive, and objected to Racine's suit the day it was announced.
    — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 28 May 2021
  • Yelp, which has been shouting about Google's allegedly anticompetitive practices in local search for many years, was quick to respond to the ruling.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
  • The judge says that while Apple isn’t a monopoly, its conduct is anticompetitive.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Hoping to thwart predictable anticompetitive risks, the EC has called for public comments.
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
  • Worse, the minority draft agrees that the burden of proof needs to be reversed and that companies should have to prove that their mergers and acquisitions are not anticompetitive.
    — Iain Murray, National Review, 14 Oct. 2020
  • Critics have alleged the App Store fees are an example of Apple’s dominant place in the market and have called them out for anticompetitive behavior.
    — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
  • If Congress doesn’t pass new laws, the FTC could use its rulemaking power to ban certain anticompetitive practices by decree.
    — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2020
  • Antitrust specialists say that even if the government can show Mr. Zuckerberg’s intentions in doing deals were anticompetitive, that wouldn’t on its own be enough to win a case against Facebook.
    — Jeff Horwitz, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The nub of the case is that Facebook built and maintained a monopoly, largely through anticompetitive acquisitions.
    — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
  • Thus, there is direct evidence in the form of party admissions that the merger will have anticompetitive effects.
    — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • There's a greater store overlap here than in many other states, which could raise anticompetitive concerns for regulators.
    — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
  • The Justice Department, which oversees health insurers, tried to block United’s purchase of Change, but failed to persuade a federal judge that the deal was anticompetitive.
    — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 1 May 2024
  • Although the case was much discussed within the tech industry and in the press, the Justice Department’s clampdown on anticompetitive behavior did not become the norm.
    — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The lawsuit asks a state court to bar Amazon from anticompetitive contracts, appoint a monitor and impose damages and penalties.
    — David Ingram, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Google faces a separate case brought by DOJ attorneys, along with 17 states, who allege that its advertising business is anticompetitive.
    — Clare Duffy, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Huff wrote that Shkreli had not personally realized any profits from the conduct deemed to be anticompetitive, but that they were instead realized by his corporate co-defendants in the case.
    — Dan Mangan, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2024

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