as in colossal
unusually large
The explorers stumbled upon an ancient castle of monolithic proportions.
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Recent Examples of monolithic
The 20-kilogram (about 44 pounds) monolithic telescope is one of the largest the lab has ever made, Bahney said.
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Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2025
In monolithic architecture, there’s a single stack performing the functions of all those different layers.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
Cultural representation was monolithic during this period—almost to a point where it could be described as exclusionary.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Emily Cooper The ideal approach to mating the two different materials involved would be to grow III-V semiconductors directly on silicon, an approach called monolithic integration.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
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Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 10 Aug. 2025
In monolithic architecture, there’s a single stack performing the functions of all those different layers.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2025
Cultural representation was monolithic during this period—almost to a point where it could be described as exclusionary.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 4 Aug. 2025
Emily Cooper The ideal approach to mating the two different materials involved would be to grow III-V semiconductors directly on silicon, an approach called monolithic integration.
—Roel Baets, IEEE Spectrum, 8 Apr. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monolithic
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First came a colossal eruption off the sun's southeastern limb, caught in stunning detail by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) and NOAA's GOES-SUVI instrument.—
Daisy Dobrijevic,
Space.com,
21 Aug. 2025
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Evoking divinity and a potential abode for the kami, or sacred spirits, the colossal site-specific work spans 797 square feet across two walls in the foyer leading to The Shinto Shrine, enshrining the sun goddess, Amaterasu Oomikami, the Japanese sun goddess and a central deity in Shinto mythology.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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After the House settlement, both schools dissolved their ties with collectives, but many schools still have them in a new era that is essentially a gigantic, expensive experiment.—
Kyle Newman,
Denver Post,
31 Aug. 2025
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Their Instagram announcement—a carousel of the couple's lavish garden engagement photoshoot—has been liked more than 35 million times since it was posted on August 26, with Swifties around the world fawning over the singer's gigantic ring.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Mike Pierce says 2025 has seen the most monumental change to the student loan system in two decades.—
Rachel Hale,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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The program, which launched in 2015, provides monumental mentorship and support for emerging filmmakers who identify as female or nonbinary.—
Kristen Tauer,
Footwear News,
3 Sep. 2025
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Investigators suspect that cooling towers – which use water to cool enormous buildings and then release mist into the air – are the origin of the disease-causing bacteria, Legionella.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
22 Aug. 2025
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Her energy was relentless, a blur of movement that made the arena feel both intimate and enormous at once.—
Bryan West,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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This astronomical use of explosives will require an increasing amount of TNT as the war continues, boding poorly for the global supply chain for the foreseeable future.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
2 Sep. 2025
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The fee is absolutely astronomical.—
Tim Spiers,
New York Times,
2 Sep. 2025
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There’s also a bunch of strange cosmic beings to fight off too.—
Joshua Lamb,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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This all represents their model, depending on a single energy scale that goes on to account for all predictions of cosmic evolution.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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Much of the gin sold worldwide is produced by mammoth companies, and Asia is no different.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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The Metallica/Boone concert, which is part of Salesforce’s mammoth Dreamforce 2025 event in downtown San Francisco, benefits UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals and takes place at Chase Center and Bayfront Park.—
Jim Harrington,
Mercury News,
21 Aug. 2025
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At the South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an immense detector buried deep under the ice, has been built to do just that.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Aug. 2025
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There would be immense value in transparent private market data.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
24 Aug. 2025
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“Monolithic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monolithic. Accessed 5 Sep. 2025.
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