How to Use oligopoly in a Sentence

oligopoly

noun

• Monopoly or oligopoly seems to be the order of the day.
  — Steve Lohr, New York Times, 20 May 2021
• Unlike the evil oligarchy of ancient Athens, the A.I. oligopoly set out to do good.
  — Wendell Wallach, Fortune, 16 June 2022
• Though the draw did him no favors, the lanky Russian is the best bet in this tournament to crack the Big Three oligopoly.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 26 Aug. 2019
• This is precisely the kind of oligopoly that the antitrust laws were meant to prevent.
  — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• The disk drive market is an oligopoly with three players.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 31 Jan. 2022
• And the unchanging ranks at the top of the industry suggest an oligopoly.
  — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 13 June 2023
• Broadcast television had been an oligopoly from the start.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• The prescription hearing-aid industry, led by an oligopoly known as the Big Five that controls more than 90 percent of the market for hearing aids, failed to stop the bill.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 30 June 2022
• The goal of the decrees was to fight oligopolies by limiting studio control over movie theaters.
  — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• Many car dealerships are now very wealthy corporate behemoths and the Big Three are no longer an oligopoly with the market to themselves.
  — Peter Weber, The Week, 21 June 2023
• But against that, consider that Micron is part of an oligopoly in memory chips.
  — John Dorfman, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• The big companies have the clout of oligopolies, a market structure where a few large firms have undue pricing power.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 29 Apr. 2017
• How long can this odd pairing of socialism and oligopoly persist?
  — Joel Kotkin, Orange County Register, 4 June 2017
• And with the tight oligopoly of three bureaus, there isn’t much advantage in getting reports right or protecting the data used to create them.
  — David Dayen, New Republic, 12 Sep. 2017
• Australia is made up of cozy oligopolies or even duopolies, making it a poor training ground for entrepreneurship.
  — Michael Heath, Bloomberg.com, 2 Oct. 2017
• Each warned that the cloud oligopoly carries risks for customers if the sector becomes lethargic, but none called for a government crackdown.
  — Jacob Carpenter, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2022
• To keep that low price—the store’s signature loss leader—Costco has begun to work outside the four-way oligopoly of big chicken companies.
  — Boyce Upholt, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2022
• Visa signed the Roundtable letter championing customers, but is part of a payments oligopoly.
  — The Economist, 26 Dec. 2019
• As an oligopoly, the three DRAM makers today are keeping production in check — and raking in money.
  — David Staats, idahostatesman, 8 Dec. 2017
• And this federal law transfers money from consumers as a whole to the handful of large companies composing the oligopoly that produces most of the ethanol.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 6 May 2017
• No other market in the world is left to function with so little oversight and with such asymmetrical terms in favor of an oligopoly.
  — Maritza Johnson, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2022
• The members of this oligopoly will continue to compete fiercely to tie up the best talent with extravagant long-term contracts.
  — Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2019
• The fossil fuels that powered the 20th century were produced by oligopolies, fed into centralised networks and sold on the premise of scarcity.
  — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
• Such an oligopoly gives producers the ability to create scarcity, causing prices to rise.
  — Phillip Braun, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• The hearing-aid oligopoly and a cartel of medical professionals have long fought direct-to-consumer sales.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2021
• But surely trust, like honor, exists in crime syndicates and closed oligopolies too.
  — Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2023
• The last change is that companies’ profits have soared, which partly reflects a decline in competition in the economy and the rise of oligopolies in many industries.
  — The Economist, 13 July 2017
• The idea that the credit card industry is a static oligopoly in dire need of more regulation is completely mistaken.
  — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022
• But the market could go from cut-throat competition to oligopoly to state control with extraordinary speed.
  — The Economist, 7 June 2018
• Indeed, monopoly and oligopoly can be very pro-worker under the right circumstances.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 1 Oct 2024