monopoly
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“These are monopoly companies, you can’t choose to buy from anybody else,” Stokes said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
Saudi Aramco, the Saudi oil monopoly, and Apple, the iPhone maker, are the only other companies in the world capable of producing so much cash.
From MarketWatch • May 22, 2026
Recent trade tensions have made investors more starkly aware of China’s monopoly on mining rare earth minerals.
From Barron's • May 19, 2026
The Financial Times’ Gideon Rachman has pointed out that China still has a monopoly on rare earth minerals, which they used to great advantage during the recent tariff war.
From Salon • May 14, 2026
Unfortunately, he had gone 15 miles when he came to the junction of the Weser, and so to a stretch of river over which a guild of boatmen held a monopoly.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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