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Walt Disney built a futuristic monorail in Anaheim in 1959—before the first bullet train even debuted in Japan.
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John Shallman, Oc Register, 10 Aug. 2025
The government entity received proposals for a range of transportation verticals, including gondolas, monorails, trams and elevated roadways.
—Stuart Dyos, The Tennessean, 30 July 2025
The Black Lava Rock Lounge on the fourth floor, for example, faces the monorail and has more hanging gardens as well as a mural with an erupting volcano; the Lagoon Reef Terrace features undulating blue walls depicting a giant coral reef.
—Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2025
The monorail was not in operation at the time.
—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 9 July 2020
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John Shallman, Oc Register, 10 Aug. 2025
The government entity received proposals for a range of transportation verticals, including gondolas, monorails, trams and elevated roadways.
—Stuart Dyos, The Tennessean, 30 July 2025
The Black Lava Rock Lounge on the fourth floor, for example, faces the monorail and has more hanging gardens as well as a mural with an erupting volcano; the Lagoon Reef Terrace features undulating blue walls depicting a giant coral reef.
—Jacqui Gifford, Travel + Leisure, 21 July 2025
The monorail was not in operation at the time.
—Bailey Schulz, USA Today, 9 July 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monorail
Noun
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The railroads are spending right now and building bridges with the push to bring jobs back to America.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
16 Sep. 2025
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As automobiles and airplanes gained ground, railroad companies remained fixated on maintaining tracks and trains.—
Amiad Solomon,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Mounted officers and sniffer dogs patrolled the streets near Windsor and Eton Central railway station, monitoring arrivals and maintaining security around the historic town.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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The live deployment runs on DB’s digital railway test field in the Ore Mountains (Erzgebirge), Germany.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In China, newer but heavily debt-financed assets—from metro systems to high-speed rail—face profitability challenges, with maintenance costs outpacing budgets.—
Maurice Obeid,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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The fatal stabbing of a young woman on a Charlotte light rail train highlights the challenges of keeping public transportation riders safe on vast, crowded and wide-open systems that fuel urban life.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The project aims to remove more than 1 million heavy goods vehicles from roads in the western Alps between France and Italy.—
Dave Smith,
Fortune,
19 Sep. 2025
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Most of them are going to come down to track position, pit strategy, executing on pit road.—
Lydia Mee,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Monorail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monorail. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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