monolith

She left her backcountry campsite about 4:30 a.m. to reach Half Dome by 6 a.m., catching the sunrise at 8,800-feet elevation from the granite monolith.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 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

However, “the software market is trading like a monolith and investors are largely not differentiating risk profiles, competitive positioning and fundamentals of specific companies,” Bhatia noted.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

Formann’s Department Store was a tan art deco monolith.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Yet tourists might find themselves entirely alone at Cromeleque dos Almendres which along with the smaller and less-visited Cromeleque de Vale Maria do Meio are mysterious mini-Stonehenge circles of planted stone monoliths.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 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

As art objects, they draw from ’60s minimalism: her monoliths, prisms, cubes, spheres, matrices, labyrinths and French curves are finished in porcelain-white, each a pristine, planar specimen.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024

Not like the rusting monoliths of the Accelerated Age, but still, it loomed over them.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi