monorail
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Flanking a stage near the monorail station, you’ll find a glistening white tower, the work of artist and activist Nikkolas Smith, who has adopted the term “artivist.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2026
The decision comes after years of often bitter debate between theme park operator Flamingo Land and people living in the area who campaigned against the plan to build a waterpark, monorail, hotel and restaurants.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2026
The monorail in 1959 would hint at the possibility of new transit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
Ahead, I watch the vehicle I’m standing in — technically a shipping container — move through craters on a monorail.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025
Lenina, meanw hile, had turned her eyes away and was looking perpendicularly downwards at the monorail station.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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Gurr’s defining Disney creations — the sci-fi-inspired monorails of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, the first implementation of a tubular steel coaster in the Matterhorn — are just a small fraction of his résumé.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025
Before entrepreneurs in Seattle won fame selling computer software or takeout coffee across the globe, the city’s vision of Century 21 soared on monorails.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
Most U.S. monorails run in short loops around amusement parks or between airport terminals.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2021
Done wrong, High Lines could become the latest in a long list of urban design failures, such as downtown shopping malls, underground passages, skyways – and monorails.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 15, 2017
The streets were narrow and filled with monorails; pedestrians pursued their courses upon walks attached to the walls of the buildings, far above the level of the streets.
From Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith
Vocabulary lists containing monorail
mon, mono (one)
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