How to Use monopoly in a Sentence

monopoly

noun

• The government passed laws intended to break up monopolies.
• Even in most of the U.S., the police have a legal monopoly on the use of force.
  — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
• Now the crisis is over and the blob wants its monopoly back.
  — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
• For a time, the United States held a monopoly on these bombs.
  — John Ismay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
• The fans hope this is a turning point in breaking up a monopoly, the lawyers said.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2023
• The state monopoly learned to be nimble and adapt to wartime footing.
  — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
• The struggle against the de facto monopoly spans years.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
• For a month since that first polio case, the CDC has clung to its testing monopoly.
  — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
• By the way, there is a wider problem in the region of establishing states that have a monopoly on the use of force.
  — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Google has faced new threats to its near-monopoly on search queries before.
  — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2022
• The Church of England doesn't have the monopoly on clergymen who solve crime.
  — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 14 Aug. 2022
• One of the main features of the effort is the possible end of UNOS’s monopoly on the key aspects of the network.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• That is now changing and so, too, the notion that any one gender holds a monopoly on being the object of the gaze.
  — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
• This is not the best of times for Atmos, a for-profit monopoly in North Texas that is listed on the stock exchange.
  — Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2023
• The story of the second decade was the unraveling of that monopoly.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
• There was a lot of resentment against the East India Co.’s monopoly over tea.
  — Arun A.k., Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• Each country has a monopoly of its own leagues of football or.
  — Michael Gale, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
• To Amazon, this proves the online giant is not a monopoly.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
• True, most of the results come from YouTube, since Google pretty much has a monopoly on online video, too.
  — PCMAG, 9 Feb. 2023
• So far, no single company seems likely to claim a monopoly in the state.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
• For example, Apple has a monopoly on the iPhone market — but not on the smartphone ...
  — Ryan Young, National Review, 26 Oct. 2022
• At the time, the DOJ accused Dentsply of maintaining a monopoly in the artificial teeth business.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 22 Mar. 2024
• Live Nation and Ticketmaster merged in 2010, a deal that raised concerns of a monopoly.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• China essentially has a monopoly on every step beyond the first phase of digging ores out of the ground.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2023
• Google is aware of its monopoly over the video-sharing industry and has jacked up its ad-free Premium tier prices to $14 monthly.
  — Dua Rashid / Gizmodo, Quartz, 28 May 2024
• Walden: Our role is to uphold the state constitution to protect the ratepayer as a check on monopolies.
  — Russ Wiles, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• Throughout the Sunshine State, Hard Rock enjoys a near monopoly on gambling.
  — Contessa Brewer, CNBC, 17 July 2024
• And then the next thing that’s going to have to get broken up is the iMessage monopoly, particularly because of the way young kids message.
  — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• Judge Nelson’s decision will address issues of monopoly, monopsony, and the rise of e-commerce.
  — Sue Lani Madsen | The Center Square Contributor, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 2 Oct. 2024
• Democratic, decentralized governance are utopian ideals that contrast sharply with the frankly dystopian future offered by a monopoly of big tech controlling all our personal data along with the development of AI.
  — Nimrod Lehavi, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024