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monolith

[mon-uh-lith] / ˈmɒn ə lɪθ /


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Evercore ISI analyst Kirk Materne wrote in a Thursday note that the software sector is not a monolith, and called out some companies showing especially strong signs of AI-related momentum.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 30, 2026

In the first experiment, the researchers placed a large crystal, known as the monolith, beside a regular rock of similar size.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026

Sprouting eyes, wings, beaks, the slender monolith seemingly rotates and billows as it rises.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026

Rousey has criticised how much the UFC pays its fighters, saying she wants to help "challenge the monolith" it has become.

From BBC ● May 15, 2026

Chicago’s City Hall and County Building is a flat-roofed, eleven-story, gray-granite monolith that occupies an entire block between Clark and LaSalle north of the Loop.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Those willing to venture beyond the country’s tourist-choked cities will find unspoiled beaches, Unesco sites, stone monoliths and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

The monoliths that form the basis of the wall are similar to - but predate - the famous menhirs that dot the Brittany countryside and are associated with the Neolithic culture.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025

Research shows there has been a sharp increase in the number of independent booksellers, even though monoliths like Amazon still reign supreme.

From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2024

Colonialism and the Western art canon flattened non-Western cultures into monoliths, Ms. Sung said.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023

There was something fluid, insubstantial, in the very heaviness of this city built of monoliths, this monolithic state that called the part and the whole by the same name.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin


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