How to Use price war in a Sentence

price war

noun
  • The airlines are engaged in another price war.
  • At first blush, a price war would be bad news for crypto firms.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Could be a price war coming to the wireless ear bud battle?
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 June 2021
  • Institutions that care about their brands don’t want to get in a price war with those places.
    Derek Newton, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • That was coupled with a price war leading to a surplus of oil on the global market.
    From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
  • Despite slim margins, the price war doesn’t appear to be abating.
    Laura He, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Yet if there is a price war over market share, T-Mobile US seems well-positioned to be one of the winners.
    Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • And an epic oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia made things even worse.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • But to get there, Ford had to wage a brutal price war with Tesla that is now entering its second year.
    Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Late last year, Robinhood helped spark a price war between the other big-time retail brokers.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2020
  • This is how a price war develops, which leads to less revenue, profit and fewer jobs and money to go around.
    Gabriel Smith, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • Those two market leaders and others have engaged in fierce price wars this year in China.
    Steve Mollman, Fortune Asia, 27 Dec. 2023
  • An epic price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia made things even worse.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 30 June 2021
  • As the coronavirus spread and Saudi Arabia and Russia mounted a price war, oil prices plunged.
    chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Riyadh carried out a brief price war with Moscow prior to that, pumping at record levels and causing prices to crash.
    Matthew Martin, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • In March, as the covid-19 pandemic spread, the Saudis and Russians fought a bruising price war to gain market share by flooding the world with oil supplies.
    The Economist, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Like with the price wars, Schrick says Xpeng is prepared to follow its competitors in cutting lease rates if a fresh price war ensues.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The crash in oil prices this spring was partially driven by the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
  • Putin and Saudi leaders haven’t talked twice in the same week since April, when Moscow and Riyadh were trying to reach a deal to end a devastating oil price war.
    Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • With a push from then-President Trump, who saw US producers as losers in an oil price collapse, the two countries ended the price war.
    Baker Institute, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Oil prices slipped below $100, and shortly thereafter OPEC engaged in a price war to regain market share.
    Robert Rapier, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The pandemic, along with a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, caused oil prices to implode this spring.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
  • That year marks a price war launched by Saudi Arabia to edge out market share taken by surging shale production in the U.S.
    Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 6 July 2021
  • The sale came just before computer prices plummeted in 1991, owing to a price war in the industry.
    Will Daniel, Fortune, 23 Feb. 2024
  • But with foldables trending toward abundance, perhaps a price war is around the corner.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 4 May 2023
  • Saudi-Russia relations have had their ups and downs, including a price war over oil in 2020.
    Aaron David Miller, CNN, 23 June 2022
  • The tsunami started to build in late 2019 when a price war among US brokerages stomped out trading commissions.
    John Detrixhe, Quartz, 2 Mar. 2021
  • First, Russia and Saudi Arabia engaged in an epic price war that flooded the market with excess crude.
    Matt Egan, CNN, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Chinese e-carmaker Nio has slashed prices barely two months after saying that price wars in the EV market were a bad idea.
    Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 12 June 2023
  • But Amazon made sure that didn't happen—first by launching a brutal price war, then by buying the company.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 30 July 2020

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