monopoly

Wendell Berry’s iconoclasm reminds both liberals and conservatives that neither camp has a monopoly on truth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Jelly Roll tried to strike a conciliatory tone, telling viewers that no political party has a monopoly on “human dignity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"He's trying to get into Number 10 as if it's a stop on a monopoly board," the Liberal Democrat added.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

When Cornelius Vanderbilt took steps to break up a railroad monopoly along the Hudson River in 1867, he was praised as a public benefactor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

Optimists and pessimists—not to mention the realists—air their opinions with unflagging energy, and as with everything else, they’re all certain that they have a monopoly on the truth.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

“Corporations doing these monopolies are keeping the audience from having access to a variety of things they would like,” says Ellis.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

He stood for enterprise, individual liberty and free trade, and against the tyranny of state-sponsored monopolies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Landlords would only accept tenants who applied using a broker, which meant many brokers had monopolies on full blocks of apartments, and sometimes whole neighborhoods.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026

When Congress first created the FTC in the 1910s, it recognized that the agency’s mandates of protecting consumers and fighting monopolies should not be overly swayed by partisan politics.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Why does the Japanese food-processing industry, like the German beer industry, consist of small companies with local monopolies?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond