as in colossal
unusually large
The explorers stumbled upon an ancient castle of monolithic proportions.
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Recent Examples of monolithic
The adjoining dining space is anchored by a monolithic 15-foot fireplace clad in black limestone.
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Chaining your organization to a single, monolithic AI platform today is a surefire way to be locked out of the next breakthrough tomorrow.
—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
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Tori Latham, Robb Report, 22 Sep. 2025
Chaining your organization to a single, monolithic AI platform today is a surefire way to be locked out of the next breakthrough tomorrow.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monolithic
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The sibling filmmaking duo spent most of the 2010s making a colossal two-part movie adaptation of King’s 1,138-page horror opus about a shapeshifting clown who terrorizes the small town of Derry, Maine.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Nov. 2025
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Filler shots of chauffeurs, champagne and colossal walk-in closets with pristine designer clobber glistening and gleaming from glass shelves centred around trays and trays of priceless jewels assault the viewer’s senses between almost every scene.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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But their collective decline from era-changing talents, who, in the case of Zverev and Medvedev, forced style changes across the tour with their combination of gigantic serves and elite movement and defense, illustrates how far Sinner and Alcaraz have pulled away.—
Charlie Eccleshare,
New York Times,
10 Nov. 2025
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Getting that pilot picked up is another gigantic win that is getting rarer and rarer.—
Senior Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 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
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The astronomical start date of a season is based on the position of the sun in relation to Earth.—
Haadiza Ogwude,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
10 Nov. 2025
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These expert picks start at just $8 at Amazon and could potentially save your life—or at the very least, save you serious money on astronomical ambulance and hospital bills.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Nov. 2025
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The partnership between Wicked and the Olympics marks a full-circle moment, as both Erivo and Grande attended the Summer Games in 2024 as part of their mammoth press cycle for the first film.—
Hannah Dailey,
Billboard,
6 Nov. 2025
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Four batters later, Ohtani exited the mound after allowing Bichette’s mammoth three-run homer.—
Chandler Rome,
New York Times,
2 Nov. 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 29 Nov. 2025.
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