monopolist

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Recent Examples of monopolist Google rival DuckDuckGo, whose executives testified during last year’s trial, said that the Justice Department is doing what needs to be done to rein in a brazen monopolist. Michael Liedtke, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024 Judge Amit Mehta: 'Google is a monopolist' In the 286-page ruling, Judge Mehta refuted the states' accusations that Google had unfairly withheld specific advertising technology from Microsoft. Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Aug. 2024 When a monopolist’s actions have instead greatly raised consumer welfare, striking down those actions as anticompetitive is at odds with U.S. antitrust law principles. Alden Abbott, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024 The Federal Trade Commission and 17 state attorneys general sued Amazon.com, Inc. alleging that the online retail and technology company is a monopolist that uses a set of interlocking anticompetitive and unfair strategies to illegally maintain its monopoly power. Steve Banker, Forbes, 9 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for monopolist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monopolist
Noun
  • While active inventory levels are expected to rise by 11.7 percent, increasing options for buyers, many markets still face supply constraints that favor sellers.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • When a criminal misuses a lawful product, the companies say, the criminal is responsible for his actions, not the manufacturer or seller.
    Mary Beth Sheridan and Ann E. Marimow The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 3 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Iowa State Fair Board met yesterday to consider proposals from vendors who want to take over the Steer N' Stein restaurant location.
    Jason Clayworth, Axios, 19 Feb. 2025
  • There will be children’s activities, educational exhibits, expert horticultural speakers, food vendors and entertainment.
    Joe Rassel, Orlando Sentinel, 19 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Retail theft rose, and many storekeepers stopped calling police.
    Teri Figueroa, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Playwright, screenwriter and actor Ins Choi takes the starring role as storekeeper and patriarch Mr Kim (Appa), with Namju Go as Umma, Jennifer Kim playing Appa and Umma’s daughter Janet, Edward Wu as their son Jung, and Miles Mitchell playing Mr Lee, Mike, Alex and Janet’s love interest Alex.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • Late one night, the heavies from the local don throw a few bricks through the window of an honest shopkeeper.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • The three-story mall with its little shops and the familiar faces of the shopkeepers was enough.
    Amal Murtaja, TIME, 24 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The site is now being used as a staging area for a public works project nearby, and the car dealership is home to a wholesaler for nail salons.
    Laura Kinsler, Orlando Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Vertex has set the wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) of the medication, the price set by a pharmaceutical manufacturer in the US when selling to a wholesaler, at US$15.50 per 50-mg pill.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Some craft brewers buy their cans through suppliers, who deal in large volumes and act as middlemen with the manufacturers.
    Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2025
  • PhRMA makes clear on its website that one of its primary objectives is to blame pharmacy benefit managers, entities that serve as the middlemen between insurance companies and pharmacies, for high drug costs.
    Robert Schmad, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 12 Feb. 2025

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“Monopolist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monopolist. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.

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