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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

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

That practice came to an end last year when work began to gut the old monolith in preparation for it conversion to housing as the centerpiece of a health-themed redevelopment of the 42-acre Eastside campus.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 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

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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