as in colossal
unusually large
The explorers stumbled upon an ancient castle of monolithic proportions.
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Recent Examples of monolithic
Chaining your organization to a single, monolithic AI platform today is a surefire way to be locked out of the next breakthrough tomorrow.
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Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
These embellishments balance out the severity of monolithic forms with human-scale accents that serve as a reminder of touch and gesture.
—Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 13 Sep. 2025
The electrically retractable hardtop folds away beneath the roof at the press of a button, and there's no rear windshield to interrupt the monolithic shape of the vehicle.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
The monolithic culture means very few issues divide the country, but there is a cultural identity split.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Ajay Pundhir, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
These embellishments balance out the severity of monolithic forms with human-scale accents that serve as a reminder of touch and gesture.
—Adrian Madlener, Curbed, 13 Sep. 2025
The electrically retractable hardtop folds away beneath the roof at the press of a button, and there's no rear windshield to interrupt the monolithic shape of the vehicle.
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 3 Sep. 2025
The monolithic culture means very few issues divide the country, but there is a cultural identity split.
—Hadley Hitson, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monolithic
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Her book objects might also take colossal form, as in 1967’s The Big Book, featuring eight-foot-by-four-foot pages secured to a central spine and moveable via casters.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
3 Nov. 2025
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Visitors entering the museum are greeted by the colossal 3,200-year-old, 11-meter-tall statue of King Ramses II, which stood for decades in central Cairo's Ramses Square before being relocated to its new home near the museum in 2006.—
Ayat Al-Tawy,
ABC News,
2 Nov. 2025
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As the season shifts toward winter, the polar jet stream begins to shift south and can stir up storms that produce howling winds and gigantic waves in November on the Great Lakes.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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The drive-thru incident took place a month after authorities in Miami were called to remove a gigantic snake from a nearby work site.—
Latoya Gayle,
PEOPLE,
2 Nov. 2025
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That would be Thomas Paine, the man credited with turning the American Revolution from a complicated Colonial fracas into a titanic struggle for the soul of liberty itself.—
Matthew Redmond,
The Conversation,
9 Oct. 2025
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From the humble red dwarfs to the titanic supergiants, stars come in a dazzling array of sizes, colors, and lifespans.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
28 Sep. 2025
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The east-west axis of the monumental structure was aligned with the direction of the sunrise on October 17 and February 24, leading Inomata to think that the monument might have acted as a ritual site during important days of the Maya calendar year.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
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Momentum looks poised to continue with Q4 guidance calling for +61% growth on the back of monumental bookings in Q3.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
4 Nov. 2025
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Danielewski is a writer of enormous power and vision.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Nov. 2025
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Some of this, of course, is related to fires in California and hurricanes in the southeast that destroyed an enormous amount of utility infrastructure.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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Captured by NOIRLab, this sunset reveals the pristine conditions that make Kitt Peak such a favorable astronomical site.—
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry,
Space.com,
31 Oct. 2025
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These stone bowls were believed to have been used by Incan scholars for astronomical observations.—
Ryan Knighton,
AFAR Media,
31 Oct. 2025
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But SpaceX is not remotely ready to deliver, with serial failures of its mammoth Starship rocket delaying development of the lander.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
24 Oct. 2025
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Supply chain bottlenecks that have long constrained an expansion of electricity grids are showing signs of easing, but plenty of other mammoth challenges remain, an executive at a major power infrastructure firm told Semafor.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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The plot revolves around a rare cosmic event when three significant nights – Chaitra Amavasya, Chaitra Purnima, and Baishakhi Amavasya – occur close together, awakening Trighori, a dark and destructive force rooted in folklore.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
5 Nov. 2025
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Scaling the experimental findings up to cosmic distances suggests that beam-plasma instabilities are not strong enough to explain the absence of the GeV gamma rays.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Monolithic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monolithic. Accessed 9 Nov. 2025.
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