monocultural

Definition of monoculturalnext

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Recent Examples of monocultural Some of that uptick is the monocultural nature of the game. J.j. Bailey, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026 In the runup to the 2025 Super Bowl, Fox had sold out its ads by August, a sign that advertisers were willing to pay a steep price for one of the last remaining monocultural events in America. Max Tani, semafor.com, 12 Jan. 2026 Today, the sport remains perhaps the last reliable monocultural engine outside of politics, and with Reality Hot Seat, NBCUniversal is placing a small bet to see if the Venn diagram between people who watch the Chiefs and people who watch Real Housewives has a significant, monetizable overlap. Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025 KPop Demon Hunters is proving that a genre once — rightly or wrongly — deemed too niche to crossover in the Western market can create a monocultural moment. Brittany Spanos, Rolling Stone, 28 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for monocultural
Adjective
  • Burlap & Barrel’s best-selling spices are grown only by smallholder farmers in other countries, under specific climate conditions unique to that place and using traditional agricultural methods not widely employed stateside.
    Ori Zohar, Bon Appetit Magazine, 27 Mar. 2026
  • From large commercial operations to small-scale organic plots, farmers across Illinois and the country are trying to weather the sharp spike in agricultural costs driven by a conflict thousands of miles from their fields.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Among agrarian humans, endosperm left its mark on our genomes.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • By probing deeper into outer-borough New York and its agrarian history, White complicates our traditional understanding of slavery as rural and southern, showing how memories of that peculiar institution shape contemporary urban life as well.
    Omari Weekes, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • That is another area in which dreams smack into the reality of Cuban state, which owns 80% of all arable land.
    Sarah Moreno Updated March 24, Miami Herald, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Declining rainfall, rising temperatures, and storms that kick up dense dust clouds have rendered vast swaths of once-arable land unusable.
    Michael Snyder, Saveur, 11 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Some of those people may be professional myrmecologists (scientists who specialize in the study of ants) and fourmiculture (ant-farming) enthusiasts.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 5 Mar. 2026

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“Monocultural.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monocultural. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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