OPEC wants to monopolize oil. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Well, yeah, Touhou did kind of monopolize the whole Shrine Miko thing, complete with armpits and whatnot. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
Cuomo said he is targeting people who "monopolize" overtime shifts and other "special payments" in their final years of employment to boost their annual income. From Wordnik.com. [San Antonio Business News - Local San Antonio News | The San Antonio Business Journal] Reference
Gilmore is concerned that Google / EarthLink will be allowed to track users across the network with a high degree of granularity and "monopolize" the Wi-Fi airwaves. From Wordnik.com. [Wi-Fi Networking News] Reference
They're the ones who monopolize the powers of information. From Wordnik.com. [Le Pen's Last Laugh?] Reference
The apple trees monopolize space by excessive lateral growth. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
And a moderate newspaper need not monopolize a whole evening. From Wordnik.com. [Girls and Women] Reference
"I must not monopolize the piano: other people can sing too.". From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
We don't intend to monopolize you, however much we want to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
So we shouldn't monopolize it and make it again an Israeli danger. From Wordnik.com. [‘Peace Out of Necessity’] Reference
In conversation he did not tend to declaim or monopolize the talk. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Fothergill to monopolize her, but seemed rather to avoid the fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
So that the Continent did not monopolize the assassins of that time. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
Thoughtful dinner-guests take pains not to monopolize the conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
It is the world which seems to monopolize the sparkle, the daring, and the picturesque. From Wordnik.com. [Men in the Making] Reference
She would monopolize the conversation, so far as she could, and direct it all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Marley, Honey] Reference
"He's an angel of a dancer, girls," she called, "but I'll promise not to monopolize him!". From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
It is a grave breach of good manners to monopolize a dressing-room for quite a period of time. From Wordnik.com. [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference
Have children of different ages equal opportunities, or do the large children monopolize the ground?. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
But Alexander is right that "controversial" art should not monopolize the attention given to the NEA. From Wordnik.com. [Washington's Works Of Art] Reference
Though dominant for some years, Rugova and the LDK did not monopolize the Kosovar political landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Lorenzo's Oil consists of long-chain monounsaturated fats intended to monopolize the synthesizing enzyme. From Wordnik.com. [Loving Lorenzo] Reference
Willa, if they send you in again with Harrington Chase, don't monopolize him as you did at the Wadleighs '. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Ace] Reference
Indeed, it seemed as though the worthy Rabbi intended to monopolize his company for the rest of the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
In May, Mitsubishi accused GE of trying to monopolize the market for variable-speed wind turbines in the U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Off 3.7%,] Reference
Instead, attention went to the most aggressive and vocal employees, who found it easier to monopolize meetings. From Wordnik.com. [The Internet: 'Don't Mail Me, I'll Mail You'] Reference
When an officer feels any temptation to monopolize the discussion, it is time to pray for a bad case of bronchitis. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
"If they did," Drum argues, "then they'd just start competing for the higher paying jobs that natives now monopolize.". From Wordnik.com. [The Media Consortium: Weekly Diaspora: The High Cost of Cheap Labor] Reference
To the visitor with limited time, the city itself and Potsdam -- "the Prussian Versailles" -- monopolize the attention. From Wordnik.com. [In and Around Berlin] Reference
Mlle. de Scudery and Mme. de La Fayette did not monopolize the sentiment of their time, but they refined and exalted it. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
It likewise introduces the intense selfishness that comes from the desire to monopolize the allegiance of the one loved. From Wordnik.com. [A Preliminary Study of the Emotion of Love between the Sexes] Reference
Right-wing voices in Israel and the U.S. have tried to monopolize the debate regarding Mideast policy and discussions on Israel. From Wordnik.com. [David A. Love: The ADL's Troubling Alliance With the Christian Right] Reference
Local portal sites such as Daum and Naver exert enormous influence on society as they nearly monopolize forums for public debates. From Wordnik.com. [When Words Kill] Reference
Nevertheless, huge as the stage was, there was not always room to practise: ponies or elephants would monopolize it for hours at a time. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Some Israelis, especially the right, want to monopolize the story of this country and to ignore the relationship of other people with this country. From Wordnik.com. [The Politics Of Poetry] Reference
West-Pointers, and doubtless Logan and Blair had some reason to believe that we intended to monopolize the higher honors of the war for the regular officers. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
To then seek -- by hook or by crook -- to put all competitors out of business and monopolize a market from which you already extract enormous profit is greed. From Wordnik.com. [Letters And Correction: The Father, The Son And T] Reference
What I am sad to report, is that Katy Perry was feeling compelled to go one step further to monopolize the media by launching a new, signature fragrance called Purr. From Wordnik.com. [Abe Gurko: The Eleventh Commandment] Reference
The government has not privatized the largest state-owned enterprises, and there is concern that Hanoi will continue to monopolize the financial sector through state-owned banks. From Wordnik.com. ['SO MUCH TO DO'] Reference
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