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corner the market

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corner the market
to become so successful at selling or making a particular product that almost no one else sells or makes it. They've more or less cornered the fast-food market - they're in every big city in the country.
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corner the market
to control the supply or sale of a particular product. The company tried to corner the market on several types of computer software.
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From selling lunches and lending money to his fellow miners, he progressed to corner the market on Black Death in Birmingham with his burial society, funeral home, insurance company and cemetery.
Black Titan: A. G. Gaston and the Making of a Black Millionaire by Merritt, Carole / Black Issues Book Review
When Lienzo is introduced to coffee and enticed into trying to corner the market, the multiple plots thicken, divide, and nearly ruin him for good.
The Coffee Trader by Purucker, Mary / Kliatt
Just Ready Pac, the California company that's trying to corner the market in no-fuss vegetables.
Ready, set, cook. (Right Stuff) by Nutrition Action Healthletter
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