How to Use monopolist in a Sentence

monopolist

noun

• 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
• Another irony in this case is that the monopolist in the airline industry that is interfering most with healthy competition is the government itself.
  — Stephen Moore, National Review, 23 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024