How to Use anticompetitive in a Sentence

anticompetitive

adjective

• But the devil’s in the detail, as seen in the news this week that Google killing these cookies might be anticompetitive.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2021
• In a 2018 decision, the court ruled that in this kind of market, plaintiffs need to show the anticompetitive harm spans both sides.
  — Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 1 Oct. 2024
• The question at hand is whether the deals Google has struck with Apple and others are anticompetitive.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
• Epic, meanwhile, has been pulling out all the stops to argue that Apple’s tight grip on the app store is anticompetitive, greedy, and overbearing.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 25 May 2021
• The two sides settled the suit in 2014, with eBay agreeing to not enter any anticompetitive hiring agreements for five years.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2023
• Even so, the decades-old standard is not a free pass for anticompetitive behavior.
  — Michael R. Strain, Star Tribune, 16 July 2021
• Facebook and Google, for instance, could have a higher bar to prove that any mergers aren’t anticompetitive.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 11 June 2021
• Microsoft will need to prove that the deal is neither anticompetitive nor harmful to new firms or consumers.
  — Scott Nover, Quartz, 21 Jan. 2022
• The charge comes one day after Epic Games, the maker of the video game giant Fortnite, sued Apple for anticompetitive behavior.
  — NBC News, 14 Aug. 2020
• The request is a step the agency takes when reviewing whether a merger could be anticompetitive under U.S. law.
  — Matthew Daly, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2023
• Critics say the companies have grown in part because of a range of anticompetitive practices.
  — Peter Eavis, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2020
• Amazon has long denied that its policies are anticompetitive, and objected to Racine's suit the day it was announced.
  — Irina Ivanova, CBS News, 28 May 2021
• Yelp, which has been shouting about Google's allegedly anticompetitive practices in local search for many years, was quick to respond to the ruling.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Nov. 2021
• The judge says that while Apple isn’t a monopoly, its conduct is anticompetitive.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 10 Sep. 2021
• Both of them encourage me to see how a company famous for low prices can still behave in an anticompetitive manner.
  — Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, 17 May 2018
• Hoping to thwart predictable anticompetitive risks, the EC has called for public comments.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2024
• Worse, the minority draft agrees that the burden of proof needs to be reversed and that companies should have to prove that their mergers and acquisitions are not anticompetitive.
  — Iain Murray, National Review, 14 Oct. 2020
• The high-profile case focused on whether the tactics that made Google the default search engine in Chrome – as well as on iPhones, Android devices and more – were anticompetitive, shutting out smaller search engines from the market.
  — Brian Fung, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
• Critics have alleged the App Store fees are an example of Apple’s dominant place in the market and have called them out for anticompetitive behavior.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2020
• Yet the White House summit ushered in that very type of concentrated reliance, as well as the kind of anticompetitive behavior that the Biden administration has pledged to stamp out.
  — Renee Dudley, ProPublica, 15 Nov. 2024
• Google has been fined three times in the past two years for anticompetitive business practices, resulting in penalties totaling more than $9 billion.
  — Adam Satariano, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2019
• If Congress doesn’t pass new laws, the FTC could use its rulemaking power to ban certain anticompetitive practices by decree.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 21 Dec. 2020
• Antitrust specialists say that even if the government can show Mr. Zuckerberg’s intentions in doing deals were anticompetitive, that wouldn’t on its own be enough to win a case against Facebook.
  — Jeff Horwitz, WSJ, 10 Dec. 2020
• The nub of the case is that Facebook built and maintained a monopoly, largely through anticompetitive acquisitions.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 11 Dec. 2020
• Thus, there is direct evidence in the form of party admissions that the merger will have anticompetitive effects.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• There's a greater store overlap here than in many other states, which could raise anticompetitive concerns for regulators.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 14 Oct. 2022
• The Justice Department, which oversees health insurers, tried to block United’s purchase of Change, but failed to persuade a federal judge that the deal was anticompetitive.
  — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 1 May 2024
• Although the case was much discussed within the tech industry and in the press, the Justice Department’s clampdown on anticompetitive behavior did not become the norm.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
• The lawsuit asks a state court to bar Amazon from anticompetitive contracts, appoint a monitor and impose damages and penalties.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 14 Sep. 2022
• Contrary to Chair Khan’s assertion, the consumer-welfare standard and rule of reason have proven to be the best course of action in cases involving anticompetitive conduct.
  — Andrew Mercado, National Review, 21 July 2021

Last Updated: 3 Jan 2025