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As the journalist Barry Lynn points out in his book Liberty From All Masters, the robber barons shared with today’s high-tech monopolists a strategy of encouraging people to see immense inequality as a tragic but unavoidable consequence of capitalism and technological change.—Zephyr Teachout, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020 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
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