How to Use price war in a Sentence

price war

noun
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  • At first blush, a price war would be bad news for crypto firms.
    — Telis Demos, WSJ, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But the price war with Tesla and others has taken a toll.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 9 May 2024
  • Could be a price war coming to the wireless ear bud battle?
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 3 June 2021
  • Not more than two months ago they were engaged in a bruising oil price war.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 2 June 2020
  • Institutions that care about their brands don’t want to get in a price war with those places.
    — Derek Newton, Forbes, 31 May 2021
  • That was coupled with a price war leading to a surplus of oil on the global market.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
  • That started to change in earnest last year when a brokerage price war kicked into high gear.
    — Matt Phillips, BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2020
  • Despite slim margins, the price war doesn’t appear to be abating.
    — Laura He, CNN, 26 Mar. 2024
  • First, the oil price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia hit home.
    — Glenn Minnis, Washington Examiner, 25 June 2020
  • Yet if there is a price war over market share, T-Mobile US seems well-positioned to be one of the winners.
    — Dallas News, 9 Jan. 2022
  • And an epic oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia made things even worse.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 6 July 2021
  • But to get there, Ford had to wage a brutal price war with Tesla that is now entering its second year.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 20 Feb. 2024
  • Late last year, Robinhood helped spark a price war between the other big-time retail brokers.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 19 Sep. 2020
  • This is how a price war develops, which leads to less revenue, profit and fewer jobs and money to go around.
    — Gabriel Smith, Forbes, 5 July 2021
  • Those two market leaders and others have engaged in fierce price wars this year in China.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune Asia, 27 Dec. 2023
  • An epic price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia made things even worse.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 30 June 2021
  • Tesla’s net profit dropped 55% year-on-year last quarter as a price war in the U.S. and China eats into margins.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 24 Apr. 2024
  • As the coronavirus spread and Saudi Arabia and Russia mounted a price war, oil prices plunged.
    — chicagotribune.com, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Riyadh carried out a brief price war with Moscow prior to that, pumping at record levels and causing prices to crash.
    — Matthew Martin, Fortune, 22 Mar. 2021
  • In March, as the covid-19 pandemic spread, the Saudis and Russians fought a bruising price war to gain market share by flooding the world with oil supplies.
    — The Economist, 30 Nov. 2020
  • Like with the price wars, Schrick says Xpeng is prepared to follow its competitors in cutting lease rates if a fresh price war ensues.
    — Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The crash in oil prices this spring was partially driven by the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 1 Dec. 2020
  • But the price of crude oil plunged by more than half in March after the pandemic froze demand and Prince Mohammed started a price war with Russia.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 16 May 2020
  • Putin and Saudi leaders haven’t talked twice in the same week since April, when Moscow and Riyadh were trying to reach a deal to end a devastating oil price war.
    — Ilya Arkhipov, Bloomberg.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • With a push from then-President Trump, who saw US producers as losers in an oil price collapse, the two countries ended the price war.
    — Baker Institute, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • Oil prices slipped below $100, and shortly thereafter OPEC engaged in a price war to regain market share.
    — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Overall, the increases erase almost all of the discounts the kingdom made during its brief price war with Russia.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 7 June 2020
  • The pandemic, along with a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia, caused oil prices to implode this spring.
    — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Muffin takes on a grouchy-granny persona and gets into a price war over an electric scooter at the garage sale Bluey and Bingo’s neighbor is holding.
    — Vanessa Armstrong, Vulture, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The industrywide price war on electric autos has become a major concern for investors.
    — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 10 May 2024

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