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monorail

[mon-uh-reyl] / ˈmɒn əˌreɪl /
NOUN
people mover
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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

The original drawing of the monorail, stenciled by Gurr within three days of getting the assignment and colored by John Hench, hangs in Gurr’s living room.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2025

The firm's proposals for its Lomond Banks resort include a monorail, waterpark, hotel and restaurants.

From BBC Dec. 20, 2024

A food hall, the Parkside Market, will host multiple eateries offering fried chicken, Korean rice bowls and more, as well as a second-story bar that looks out toward the district’s monorail tracks.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 5, 2024

Lenina, meanw hile, had turned her eyes away and was looking perpendicularly downwards at the monorail station.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley

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

Long winters, home and hearth, wrap up snugly: the decor of the future that’s already with us is not soaring megastructures, holidays on the moon, monorails and geodesic domes.

From The Guardian Apr. 19, 2016

The monorails run right into the hotel lobby, every ten minutes.

From Return to Pleasure Island by Doctorow, Cory




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