virtual

In a sentence

Six example sentences with virtual, each labelled with its topic.

• Two firms hold ninety-four percent of the market, which gives them a virtual monopoly over what farmers pay for seed.

  Economics

• The incumbent faced no funded challenger, so the primary was a virtual formality decided months before anyone voted.

  Politics

• Owning both studios gave the publisher virtual control of the genre, and rivals stopped pitching similar titles altogether.

  Gaming

• With a twenty-point lead and two minutes left, the win was a virtual certainty, and the starters sat down.

  Basketball

• One supplier makes nine-tenths of the world's specialized lenses, giving it a virtual monopoly on camera makers.

  Business

• The regent held virtual power for a decade, since the child king signed whatever she placed before him.

  History

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