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Instead, the United States and its allies and partners must find scale together, through a defensive moat against Chinese exports.—Kurt M. Campbell, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2025 Insurers preserve the complexity and fragmentation of the current system as a moat against competition.—Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025 Takeaway Overall, Shopify is a great business with a moat and is likely to obtain a higher return on equity than its costs of capital for many years.—Gurufocus, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2025 The integrated ecosystem approach means that even if the underlying AI is commoditized, the user experience can create a moat around the product.—Yi Shi, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for moat
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Etymology
Middle English mote, from Anglo-French mote, motte mound, moat
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