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"Moat" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Most castles have a moat surrounding them.
Many castles are encircled by a moat.
A woman crossed a castle moat to rescue a stranded old dog.
There's a moat around the castle.
A moat was dug around the castle to thwart attackers.
The river outside of the castle is called a moat.
A moat surrounds the castle.
The castle is surrounded by a moat.
Is it legal for me to dig a moat around my house?
Ziri built a moat.
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No matter how good your company's product is or how quickly the industry is growing, if there is no moat, competitors will invade your castle and burn it down.
“I think ‘moats’ are lame,” Mr. Musk had said during a Tesla earnings call. It was a criticism of an economic principle that Mr. Buffett had coined in 1999 and that has become something of a mantra for his faithful: Invest in businesses “that have wide, sustainable moats around them.”
Moreover, where older firms might have to stave off competitors and engage in practices like predatory pricing to keep the competition at bay, platform monopolies have a built-in moat. Since a platform’s value comes from its number of users—a phenomenon known as the network effect—competing against large platforms is nigh impossible since its monopoly position makes it inherently more useful.
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