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"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

Technology destroyed their monopoly on information and decimated their business models.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

Yet for the titans of American energy, the prospect of a state-backed company with a virtual monopoly over 65 billion barrels of Venezuela’s proven reserves injects new uncertainty into the possibility of investing there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Wiener said both bills are important for helping individuals and communities “to not be trapped in the monopoly utility model that is so expensive.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

When we were on vacation, we had a little more family time, a little more time to read newspapers, play chess or monopoly, and listen to the radio.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

To prevent some economic actors from having undue power over markets, we need to revitalize the tools we created in the late 1800s to fight monopolies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 4, 2026

That all spells exciting times for sleepy, regulated natural monopolies that control the last kilometer to the customer.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

As a result, Japanese food-processing companies enjoy local monopolies.

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