How to Use monolith in a Sentence
monolith
noun- The media monolith owns a number of networks.
- The new office building is a massive steel and concrete monolith.
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The movement to pare back the role of police isn't a monolith, though.
— CNN, 17 June 2020 -
The sun shot right down the hallway, hitting the monolith and the stone marker.
— Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 3 Jan. 2023 -
Ropes were then placed around the monolith, then chains, but the stubborn stone wouldn’t yield.
— William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 3 June 2020 -
By the third cycle, the monoliths were removing 75% of the PFOA in three hours.
— Michael Irving, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2024 -
It has been said too many times over the last week, but Black voters are no monolith.
— BostonGlobe.com, 22 Sep. 2021 -
There is no monolith, no secret base on the rim of a lunar crater.
— Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2022 -
Yet, investors should be aware that tech is not a monolith.
— Jon Markman, Forbes, 17 June 2022 -
The monolith found in the Nevada desert appears similar to the ones found in 2020.
— Christopher Brito, CBS News, 18 June 2024 -
Read more about the first days of the monolith’s appearance in Bellvue here.
— Tiney Ricciardi, The Denver Post, 3 July 2024 -
This one appeared a few days after the monolith in the Utah desert was removed.
— Brett Harman, CNN, 4 Dec. 2020 -
But not everyone wants, or has space for, a huge monolith of a PC in their home.
— Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 8 Dec. 2022 -
The bottom line: There are no monoliths in this election.
— Brady Dale, Axios, 18 July 2024 -
The Xbox Series X is a Kubrickian black monolith with a weird grate and an alien green light on top.
— Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 27 Apr. 2021 -
The movement is not a monolith, and looks different from state to state.
— Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2021 -
Joe can’t think of their union like some sort of non-eroding stone, a monolith to their romance.
— Brian Moylan, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2021 -
This is not to say that the AAPI community is a monolith.
— NBC News, 2 Nov. 2021 -
Which is kind of the point as Black people, and the Black experience, is not a monolith.
— Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2022 -
Fidel is dead, his ashes tucked away in a monolith that looks like a prop from the Flintstones movie.
— Carlos Eire, National Review, 14 July 2021 -
No group in the U.S. is a monolith, although research has treated them as such.
— Mario Carrasco, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021 -
The mysterious origins of the monoliths led some to think they were brought by UFOs.
— Michael Salerno, The Arizona Republic, 18 June 2024 -
Yet the Black voting bloc is hardly a monolith and has diverse views.
— Donna M. Owens, Essence, 29 July 2021 -
Why, then, do podcasts tend to get handled like a monolith?
— Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2021 -
Even at the height of GOP dominance, Arizona wasn't a monolith.
— Jonathan J. Cooper and Bob Christie, Star Tribune, 4 Nov. 2020 -
This week, there was a debate — over whether the Las Vegas monolith was placed by aliens or humans, of course!
— Holly J. Morris, NPR, 28 June 2024 -
At the center stands a monolith, like a natural obelisk.
— Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022 -
The monolith found in the desert in Utah has disappeared, and there are plenty of theories around it.
— Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2020 -
But be cautious: because Gen Z itself is hardly a monolith.
— Julia Dhar, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024 -
This week, various people who’ve worked for or with Adams and his administration cautioned me not to think of him and his circle as a monolith.
— Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2024
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