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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For the rest of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century, magnetic storms, triggered by colossal solar explosions, repeatedly disrupted those networks.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Oct. 2025
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Just down the street from the colossal blue Scientology center (one of LA’s top locations for taking an ironic selfie) is Found Oyster, a delightful and perennially (pleasantly) crowded seafood restaurant inspired by clam shacks on the East Coast.—
Jocelyn Silver,
Vogue,
25 Oct. 2025
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Plus, the cash flow from its chemical business is gigantic.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
26 Oct. 2025
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Titanic, gigantic GodzillaStomped on Tokyo, then on Manila.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Oct. 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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When Rani Johnson joined Workday as chief information officer in March 2023, her appointment happened to coincide with some monumental generative artificial intelligence milestones, including the debut of Anthropic’s Claude and the rollout of OpenAI’s GPT-4.—
John Kell,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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As a result, the films made during Nkrumah’s time were ordered to be burned, his name struck from Ghanaian classrooms and his monumental efforts to build a self-reliant and culturally sovereign Africa were silenced.—
Diana Lodderhose,
Deadline,
20 Oct. 2025
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My love for Stevie Wonder is enormous, and a lot of that comes from Joni’s love for Stevie Wonder.—
Marissa R. Moss,
Rolling Stone,
23 Oct. 2025
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That's an enormous gap, but what other team has a better claim as the league's 11th-best?—
Chase Goodbread,
The Tuscaloosa News,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
27 Oct. 2025
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But the two have racked up an astronomical, nine-figure legal bill that far exceeds any reasonable amount the two may have needed for their defense, the bank said in a court filing late Friday.—
Ken Sweet,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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In the far distant future of our planet, will memories persist about cosmic disasters that wiped out entire populations?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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Kurma is a tortoise and represents endurance, patience and cosmic time.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
22 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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“Monolithic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monolithic. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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