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For The Times) Today’s great photo is from Times contributor David Fouts at the Tujunga home of Bob Gurr, who helped shape Disneyland and designed many of the park’s amusement rides, including its Autopia cars, monorail and the Matterhorn Bobsleds.
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
When work began in 1968, state officials envisioned an airport five times bigger than New York's JFK International Airport, with six runways and a monorail, according to the National Park Service.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 24 June 2025
Typically, monorails and the like become a reasonable option when an attraction is overflowing with tourists.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
The airport is slated to complete a $5.5 billion construction project that includes a monorail that is supposed to reduce congestion.
—Eli Tan, New York Times, 14 May 2025
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Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
When work began in 1968, state officials envisioned an airport five times bigger than New York's JFK International Airport, with six runways and a monorail, according to the National Park Service.
—Rachel Treisman, NPR, 24 June 2025
Typically, monorails and the like become a reasonable option when an attraction is overflowing with tourists.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 4 June 2025
The airport is slated to complete a $5.5 billion construction project that includes a monorail that is supposed to reduce congestion.
—Eli Tan, New York Times, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monorail
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Burnham Yard is a brownfield site, and the contamination from decades spent as a railroad repair yard will need to be cleaned up.—
Aldo Svaldi,
Denver Post,
25 July 2025
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Salisbury is preserving the depot and will make additions to help return the building to its railroad focus.—
Damenica Ellis
July 25,
Charlotte Observer,
25 July 2025
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Most major underground subway systems, such as the New York City Subway, are all electric railways.—
Charles Singh,
The Tennessean,
30 July 2025
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Most freight rail mergers combine railways that share a similar service area to build density and market share rather than seek an end-to-end merger like this one, Swan said.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
29 July 2025
Noun
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The Today show staples were discussing their extensive history together when things went off the rails.—
Rachel McRady,
People.com,
24 July 2025
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Its slide-out section is mounted on rails like the firm's previous Settler model and is pulled out manually, functioning a little like a big drawer.—
Adam Williams
July 23,
New Atlas,
23 July 2025
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As Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 successfully landed its 6-foot-tall lunar lander on the moon’s surface around 2:34 a.m. Sunday morning, cheers erupted at the watch party at Haute Spot in Cedar Park, just down the road from where 50 Firefly operators monitored the landing.—
Karoline Leonard,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Several road projects are in progress around the new Department of Veterans Affairs medical center on Brownsboro Road, which is scheduled to open to patients in 2026.—
Leo Bertucci,
The Courier-Journal,
29 July 2025
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“Monorail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monorail. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.
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