How to Use monopoly in a Sentence

monopoly

noun
Definition of monopolynext
  • The government passed laws intended to break up monopolies.
  • Even in most of the U.S., the police have a legal monopoly on the use of force.
    — TIME, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Now the crisis is over and the blob wants its monopoly back.
    — Matthew Hennessey, WSJ, 20 Dec. 2023
  • There is no monopoly on good ideas in the U.S. Space Force.
    — Ron Schmelzer, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
  • For a time, the United States held a monopoly on these bombs.
    — John Ismay, New York Times, 11 May 2024
  • The fans hope this is a turning point in breaking up a monopoly, the lawyers said.
    — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The state monopoly learned to be nimble and adapt to wartime footing.
    — Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The struggle against the de facto monopoly spans years.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 23 Feb. 2023
  • For a month since that first polio case, the CDC has clung to its testing monopoly.
    — David Axe, Rolling Stone, 22 Aug. 2022
  • By the way, there is a wider problem in the region of establishing states that have a monopoly on the use of force.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Google has faced new threats to its near-monopoly on search queries before.
    — WIRED, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The Church of England doesn't have the monopoly on clergymen who solve crime.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 14 Aug. 2022
  • One of the main features of the effort is the possible end of UNOS’s monopoly on the key aspects of the network.
    — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • That is now changing and so, too, the notion that any one gender holds a monopoly on being the object of the gaze.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • This is not the best of times for Atmos, a for-profit monopoly in North Texas that is listed on the stock exchange.
    — Dallas News, 27 Jan. 2023
  • The story of the second decade was the unraveling of that monopoly.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 5 Jan. 2024
  • There was a lot of resentment against the East India Co.’s monopoly over tea.
    — Arun A.k., Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The move comes after an August ruling in which a U.S. judge ruled that Google holds a monopoly in the search market.
    — Michele Luhn, CNBC, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Each country has a monopoly of its own leagues of football or.
    — Michael Gale, Forbes, 11 Feb. 2023
  • To Amazon, this proves the online giant is not a monopoly.
    — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Oct. 2023
  • True, most of the results come from YouTube, since Google pretty much has a monopoly on online video, too.
    — PCMAG, 9 Feb. 2023
  • In other words, baseball can behave as a monopoly and not be called out for it.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The agency argues that Google has a monopoly over all three markets.
    — Julia Shapero, The Hill, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Broadband providers have the same monopoly over their customers.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 13 July 2022
  • So far, no single company seems likely to claim a monopoly in the state.
    — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 21 May 2024
  • Nor does the United States have a monopoly on church burglaries.
    — Elizabeth Djinis, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2022
  • For example, Apple has a monopoly on the iPhone market — but not on the smartphone ...
    — Ryan Young, National Review, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The first credit card company was built by a bank but later split off to avoid being a monopoly.
    — Dustin Eide, Rolling Stone, 5 Nov. 2024
  • While achieving a monopoly in these new arenas remains uncertain, a company of Google’s scale and resources must carefully calculate its next moves.
    — Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Others cracked jokes after police discovered a backpack allegedly belonging to the shooter that was filled with monopoly money.
    — Ivana Saric, Axios, 10 Dec. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'monopoly.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: