How to Use duopoly in a Sentence

duopoly

noun
  • The duopoly is the problem, and only the voters can suppress it.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 31 Dec. 2019
  • But these two companies already hold a duopoly on the semaglutide and tirzepatide market.
    — Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 20 May 2025
  • How their teams fare this season could determine the direction of the duopoly.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 4 Dec. 2019
  • Every company that wants to provide search to the world faces either a duopoly or a very long journey.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 5 Aug. 2022
  • The lucrative market for weight loss drugs won’t stay a duopoly forever.
    — Christina Cheddar Berk, CNBC, 28 July 2024
  • First, there is no monopoly or duopoly of influence in Africa.
    — Folashade Soule, Quartz Africa, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Being in a two with a volatile America might well prove a better choice than being cast alone in the duopoly to come.
    — Tom McTague, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The next step is duopoly, a market in which there are two producers, though not necessarily the same size.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 16 June 2019
  • Overcoming the entrenched duopoly is daunting, and that’s putting it mildly.
    — Carl M. Cannon, Orange County Register, 23 Apr. 2017
  • What Boeing can bank on is the longstanding aircraft duopoly will endure.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2020
  • That is, having just forbidden a monopoly, the government seemed to be giving a green light to a duopoly.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Apple and Google hold a duopoly over the mobile app market outside China.
    — Takashi Mochizuki, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2020
  • But the pair remain the clear duopoly in online advertising, and will be for the foreseeable future.
    — Davey Alba, WIRED, 29 July 2017
  • China’s pathway to an economic duopoly with the US was never in doubt.
    — Michael Gale, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Swiggy has most of the other half, making the sector effectively a duopoly.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 21 Jan. 2020
  • Its duopoly with Airbus means that, in the short run, airlines and suppliers have little choice but to bear the costs stoically.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • Other countries are trying to break the duopoly of Boeing and Airbus.
    — Nicholas Gordon, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2022
  • The Visa and Mastercard payment card duopoly is steadily increasing its reach in many parts of the world.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 1 Mar. 2020
  • Even formidable figures like Theodore Roosevelt failed to break up the duopoly.
    — Author: Peter Baker, Alaska Dispatch News, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Though the firm is part of a civil-aviation duopoly with Airbus, competition between the two is fierce.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • The duopoly of the great auction houses is a codependency on which the rest of the sixty-five-billion-dollar art market relies.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
  • Most of all, Boeing shares with Airbus a duopoly in a gigantic business that at some point will return to robust growth.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 20 June 2020
  • In Spain, Barcelona remains unbeaten as its duopoly with Real Madrid goes on.
    — Jonathan Wilson, SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Sweeney described the two companies as a duopoly in an interview with Bloomberg Television last month.
    — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2020
  • But new regulations in the mid-2000s and the rise of electronic trading smashed that duopoly.
    — Alexander Osipovich, WSJ, 21 May 2018
  • For one, the United States has been a political duopoly for more than a century, and there are no signs of disruption.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 12 June 2023
  • Yet more than a third of the voters wanted to opt out of the two-party duopoly in the misguided belief that an overconfident billionaire could save the nation.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 27 June 2022
  • The Novo Nordisk-Eli Lilly weight loss drug duopoly is facing some hot competitors.
    — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The crisis has also left Boeing at risk of losing ground to Airbus SE in the global aerospace duopoly.
    — Bloomberg Wire, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2020
  • To be clear, dumping the duopoly of Iowa and New Hampshire is deeply popular within the Democratic base.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022

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