as in colossal
unusually large
The explorers stumbled upon an ancient castle of monolithic proportions.
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Recent Examples of monolithic
For the non-connoisseur, chocolate tends to be thought of as a monolithic flavor, Hack said.
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
LeCun, who left Meta in November to found Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, argued that the AI industry has become dangerously monolithic.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
Organizations are moving away from monolithic AI systems toward coordinated teams of specialized agents.
—Melody Brue, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Advertisement The Iranian clergy is far from monolithic.
—Narges Bajoghli, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
LeCun, who left Meta in November to found Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Labs, argued that the AI industry has become dangerously monolithic.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
Organizations are moving away from monolithic AI systems toward coordinated teams of specialized agents.
—Melody Brue, Forbes.com, 16 Jan. 2026
Advertisement The Iranian clergy is far from monolithic.
—Narges Bajoghli, Time, 13 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monolithic
Adjective
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And the country’s colossal pharma production industry is gearing up to take advantage by selling generic versions.—
Ayushi Shah,
CNN Money,
8 Feb. 2026
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Its main north-south street, Broadway, has its north terminus at the colossal lakefront Gary Works.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Inside, explore your senses with gigantic mirrors and specialized lights.—
Elena Donovan Mauer,
Parents,
8 Feb. 2026
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Behind the credit card, ubiquitous in American economic life now for decades, stand a very few gigantic financial institutions that exert nearly unlimited power over how much consumers and businesses pay for the use of a small piece of plastic.—
Carter Dougherty,
Mercury News,
7 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Henderson scored, putting the Pats ahead once again in a titanic battle of AFC East powerhouses.—
Kyle Feldscher,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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But hiding behind this benign climate state was all that titanic power flowing through the climate system.—
Adam Frank,
Forbes.com,
24 Jan. 2026
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The building was also a monumental tomb, constructed by Consul Gaius Julius Aquila in honor of his father, Gaius Julius Celus Polemeanus, who is buried here.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
9 Feb. 2026
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Like the Colosseum, the amphitheater was a monumental travertine-and-brick structure, once seating 50,000 people.—
Erica Firpo,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Feb. 2026
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Wall Street wants to see evidence that these enormous expenditures will result in actual profits.—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
6 Feb. 2026
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Republican leaders must stay closely aligned with Trump, of course, while Schumer and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are under enormous pressure to resist the president.—
Burgess Everett,
semafor.com,
5 Feb. 2026
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,
9 Feb. 2026
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The winter sky is filled with astronomical wonders that are worth braving the cold to see.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Katharine arrived just after Labor Day in 1918 for her first day of work at GE’s mammoth, sprawling complex.—
Natalia Sánchez Loayza,
Scientific American,
5 Feb. 2026
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Meta has quietly purchased roughly 1,400 acres—an area almost twice the size of Manhattan’s Central Park—adjacent to its already-mammoth 2,250-acre Hyperion AI data center site in Richland Parish, Louisiana, Fortune has learned.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
5 Feb. 2026
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This research acts like a cosmic linguist, analyzing subtle spectral signatures to give us unprecedented insight into how these powerful, yet often hidden, forces influence star birth, sculpt galactic gas and orchestrate the evolution of galaxies.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
11 Feb. 2026
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Human beings—predictors of eclipses, theorists of cosmic heat death—may no longer be the best guides to the future.—
Ross Andersen,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Monolithic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monolithic. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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