How to Use monopolist in a Sentence

monopolist

noun
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  • That’s hard to achieve when the monopolist gives his product away.
    — Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • In this view, there is no crime in being monopolist; the crime is in abusing that power.
    — John D. Stoll, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2018
  • In exchange, the fresh-minted monopolist was to devote large portions of their new wealth and power to the interests of the queen.
    — Barry Lynn, Wired, 29 Sep. 2020
  • But the point is that Meta isn’t the monopolist that the Federal Trade Commission claims in its lawsuit to break up the company.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Oct. 2022
  • One way to maximize auction revenue is for the FCC to act like a monopolist and hold spectrum off the market.
    — David R. Henderson, WSJ, 12 Oct. 2020
  • The judge didn't brand Apple as a monopolist or require it to allow competing stores to offer apps for iPhones, iPads and iPods.
    — Mike Householder, ajc, 30 June 2022
  • The judge didn’t brand Apple as a monopolist or require it to allow competing stores to offer apps for iPhones, iPads and iPods.
    — Tom Krisher, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2021
  • And so their image was just kind of an aggressive monopolist.
    — Elizabeth Crane, Recode, 18 May 2018
  • Like any good monopolist, Intel charges a steep price for its products—unless AMD is doing well.
    — The Economist, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Would prices have been lower if not for a monopolist’s exclusion of rivals?
    — Sandeep Vaheesan, Wired, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Viewed from China, many of its big firms have become comfy monopolists.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The idea is that the monopolist’s profits should not exceed the level that a competitive market would allow.
    — The Economist, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The progressive, anti-monopolist might respond to this complaint by calling for the breakup of Netflix and Amazon, too.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 12 June 2018
  • But for the moment, the progressive anti-monopolist has no power.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 12 June 2018
  • In the past, Apple was seen as the scrappy underdog beloved by content creators fighting a heavy-handed monopolist.
    — Aaron Tilley, WSJ, 27 June 2021
  • One provision in the draft lowered the bar for the authorities to argue, in certain cases, that a company was a monopolist.
    — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
  • These are not the statements of a man who liked most monopolies and merely sought to restrain the occasional monopolist who lost sight of his duty to make life better for the public.
    — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • An owner of a valuable plot in, say, the Bay Area of California is inherently a monopolist.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • Epic argues that the distribution of software on iPhones is a market unto itself and that Apple is a monopolist of that market.
    — Washington Post, 24 May 2021
  • In Illumina, the F.T.C. sees a monopolist poised to thwart competition in a nascent market.
    — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022
  • Apple does not control enough of the smartphone market to be fairly considered a monopolist.
    — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2024
  • For competitors, bundling allows the monopolist to dominate the market for the bundled product.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 21 May 2022
  • The challenges are not, a company that does A challenges the monopolist who does A. The challenge is a company who does B, has a total different approach to solving a problem ...
    — Eric Johnson, Recode, 7 Nov. 2018
  • If so, and if the free market Texas legislature does not step in, consumers will face the outcome expected when a monopolist runs a market: much less service at much higher prices.
    — Ed Hirs, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The reasoning for the Howe bridge is economic security — taking a crucial piece of infrastructure out of the hands of a monopolist.
    — Detroit Free Press, 22 Mar. 2018
  • In arguing that Apple was a monopolist, Epic had called for the ability to offer its own app store as an alternative way to distribute iOS apps.
    — Brian Fung, CNN, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The Chicago School used complicated mathematical models to sort the good monopolists from the bad ones.
    — Cory Doctorow, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Small and big businesses, workers and creators are being squeezed by monopolists who use their market power to extract the fruits of everyone else's labor.
    — Sally Hubbard For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 1 July 2019
  • In order to gore its preferred ox, the FTC is ignoring the realities of today’s retail world in asserting that Amazon is a monopolist.
    — Jessica Melugin, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
  • With Google found to be a monopolist, the Department of Justice, states and other parties could bring additional litigation against Google.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 6 Aug. 2024

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