monopolist

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Recent Examples of monopolist With Google branded yet again as a monopolist, the DOJ asked for stiff penalties, seeking to have US District Judge Amit Mehta force Google to sell its popular Chrome browser and end payments for search engine placement with other firms. Ryan Whitwam, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2025 The United States Department of Justice is demanding that Google sell off its Chrome browser after a court ruling in August found the company to be a monopolist in the search market. Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024 In that matter, the FTC sought to restore competition by unwinding an anticompetitive merger of two hospitals that created a regional monopolist in Georgia. Alden Abbott, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for monopolist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monopolist
Noun
  • As Uso surpassed top stars like Roman Reigns and CM Punk to become WWE’s top merchandise seller, the Yeet movement catapulted Uso to not one but two of the most shocking upsets in WWE history.
    Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Dabney recalls that the seller was upgrading his solar array and getting rid of his current panels, which were about five years old.
    Bloomberg, Mercury News, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • All the while, Jerome seemed to fuel his own fire by looking for the nearest opponent or hot dog vendor to talk to after seemingly every bucket.
    Joe Vardon, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Despite this, all taxes, employees, and vendors were paid.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Although competition among storekeepers can be fierce, Mateo sees U.B.A. as a marketplace of ideas.
    H. C. Wilentz, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Retail theft rose, and many storekeepers stopped calling police.
    Teri Figueroa, The Mercury News, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • In a 250-year-old Edo-period building, shopkeeper Akihiko Matsubara pours me a cup of green tea and tells me he’s run the Tateba Tea House for 13 years.
    Haley Harrison, AFAR Media, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Meanwhile, some remaining shopkeepers are grumbling about the vacancies.
    David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Randy Arceneaux, the CEO Affiliated Foods, a wholesaler in Amarillo, Texas servicing around 700 independent grocery stores in eight states, said that most suppliers are still waiting to see what happens with tariffs.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For Amazon that partner was Ingram, a wholesaler for books.
    Christian Stadler, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Freight forwarders may fear that collaboration could lead them to become an unnecessary middleman.
    Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Boosters of the technology depict it as a way to cut middlemen such as banks out of financial transactions and to make those transactions more transparent and secure.
    Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 2 Apr. 2025

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“Monopolist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monopolist. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.

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