monorail

as in railroad

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Recent Examples of monorail With a monorail touching many landmarks, the map's building architecture looks modern, but with plenty of zip lines connecting buildings. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2024 How many hotels are on the monorail? Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024 How did the Disney monorail crawl start? Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024 What is the monorail crawl at Disney World? Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 14 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for monorail
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Noun
  • Like the 19th-century railroad industry—where true economic transformation stemmed from cities and industries enabled by railroads—rockets are infrastructure enabling a larger economic ecosystem.
    Reema Khan, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025
  • Bertha sets her sights on a prize that would elevate the family to unimaginable heights; George risks everything on a gambit that could revolutionize the railroad industry.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • While Father Vitalii was growing up in Rivne, his father, a railway engineer and former Soviet soldier, had discouraged him from pursuing a military career of his own.
    Dominique Soguel, Christian Science Monitor, 21 Apr. 2025
  • This means strengthening and building fuel tanks, skeletal bases with paved parking areas and bunkers, fiber-optic cables, and even railway sidings to permit rapid unloading of trains.
    Barry R. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The 203-foot-long (62 meters) rocket was transferred vertically by rail, taking it 0.93 miles (1.5 kilometers) from the integration building to the pad, over the course of around two hours.
    Andrew Jones, Space.com, 17 Apr. 2025
  • Given that between 20 percent and 30 percent of the intermodal segment’s volume originates on the West Coast, Field said J.B. Hunt would keep in close contact with customers and rail providers near the coast to determine where to best allocate capacity going forward.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The road that leads to the Ambassador Bridge, which connects Detroit to Canada, is notoriously difficult to navigate, even for locals.
    Jasmine Garsd, NPR, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The museum tracing the company’s history is just across the road from the coffee shop where Bastiaan Riemersma is sitting.
    James Pearce, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2025

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“Monorail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monorail. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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