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monolith

[mon-uh-lith] / ˈmɒn ə lɪθ /


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Recognizing that China isn’t a monolith, Deng Xiaoping’s “Reform and Opening Up” didn’t attempt to transform China’s entire economy at once.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026

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

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

All-night broadcasting had not been proven as a business model in an industry dominated nationally by corporate monoliths like ABC, NBC and CBS, where news programming was something that happened on a set schedule.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

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

If the fish-trap hypothesis is the right one, then the lines of protruding monoliths would have also supported a "net" made of sticks and branches to catch fish as the tide retreated.

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

The seventeen-story monoliths were among the dangerous projects in all of Baltimore.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore


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