How to Use duopoly in a Sentence

duopoly

noun
  • The duopoly is the problem, and only the voters can suppress it.
    Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Being in a two with a volatile America might well prove a better choice than being cast alone in the duopoly to come.
    Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
  • With Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi holding a duopoly over the award for a decade, the 29-year-old - like many - have hardly had a look-in.
    SI.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • That gave them an effective duopoly, as Frieden puts it.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2021
  • In that vision, Kins will be the coin of the realm in all sorts of Internet economies, from video games to ad blocking, and help to dethrone the online duopoly of Facebook and Google.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 8 May 2018
  • The Visa and Mastercard payment card duopoly is steadily increasing its reach in many parts of the world.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Every company that wants to provide search to the world faces either a duopoly or a very long journey.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Efforts are slowly trickling to break through the duopoly.
    al, 14 Aug. 2022
  • How their teams fare this season could determine the direction of the duopoly.
    BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • But new regulations in the mid-2000s and the rise of electronic trading smashed that duopoly.
    Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 21 May 2018
  • Its duopoly with Airbus means that, in the short run, airlines and suppliers have little choice but to bear the costs stoically.
    The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Other countries are trying to break the duopoly of Boeing and Airbus.
    Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • To be clear, dumping the duopoly of Iowa and New Hampshire is deeply popular within the Democratic base.
    James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The crisis has also left Boeing at risk of losing ground to Airbus SE in the global aerospace duopoly.
    Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2020
  • China’s pathway to an economic duopoly with the US was never in doubt.
    Michael Gale, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The next step is duopoly, a market in which there are two producers, though not necessarily the same size.
    Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • Apple and Google hold a duopoly over the mobile app market outside China.
    Takashi Mochizuki, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • Most of all, Boeing shares with Airbus a duopoly in a gigantic business that at some point will return to robust growth.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2020
  • For one, the United States has been a political duopoly for more than a century, and there are no signs of disruption.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 June 2023
  • That is, having just forbidden a monopoly, the government seemed to be giving a green light to a duopoly.
    Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2022
  • In Spain, Barcelona remains unbeaten as its duopoly with Real Madrid goes on.
    Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • First, there is no monopoly or duopoly of influence in Africa.
    Folashade Soule, Quartz Africa, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Though the firm is part of a civil-aviation duopoly with Airbus, competition between the two is fierce.
    The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • Overcoming the entrenched duopoly is daunting, and that’s putting it mildly.
    Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2017
  • Even formidable figures like Theodore Roosevelt failed to break up the duopoly.
    Author: Peter Baker, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Yet more than a third of the voters wanted to opt out of the two-party duopoly in the misguided belief that an overconfident billionaire could save the nation.
    Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 June 2022
  • What Boeing can bank on is the longstanding aircraft duopoly will endure.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2020
  • On February 8th that duopoly was smashed apart, when Sinn Fein got the largest share of first-preference votes in the republic’s general election.
    The Economist, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Swiggy has most of the other half, making the sector effectively a duopoly.
    Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Sweeney described the two companies as a duopoly in an interview with Bloomberg Television last month.
    Mark Gurman, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2020

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