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Over the last decade, however, the United States has suffered the monopolist's curse, believing that buyers had no other alternatives.—Jonathan Caverley, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2012 As the journalist Barry Lynn points out in his book Liberty From All Masters, the robber barons shared with today’s high-tech monopolists a strategy of encouraging people to see immense inequality as a tragic but unavoidable consequence of capitalism and technological change.—Zephyr Teachout, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2020 The United States Department of Justice is demanding that Google sell off its Chrome browser after a court ruling in August found the company to be a monopolist in the search market.—Jack Kelly, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024 In that matter, the FTC sought to restore competition by unwinding an anticompetitive merger of two hospitals that created a regional monopolist in Georgia.—Alden Abbott, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for monopolist
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