How to Use monolithic in a Sentence

monolithic

adjective
  • The current Xeon SP chips use a monolithic die, with up to 28 cores and 56 threads.
    Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 5 Nov. 2018
  • In other words, J.Crew is now a far cry from the monolithic vision of the Lyons era.
    Eliza Brooke, Vox, 9 Oct. 2018
  • One of my goals was to show that Black women are not monolithic.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 8 Jan. 2023
  • And the darkness is no longer monolithic, but swirls with shades of black and a parade of textures.
    Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Pew is careful to note that these two groups are not monolithic.
    Chris Cillizza, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021
  • Just look for the monolithic concrete golf ball off U.S. 281.
    Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 30 Aug. 2019
  • The film helped cement the image of the Black Church as something that was small and southern, and in many ways monolithic.
    Erica Armstrong Dunbar, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The party is not as monolithic as myth would have it, either.
    The Economist, 21 Apr. 2018
  • But this monolithic view of the mind leads to the Socratic view of addiction.
    Brendan De Kenessey, Vox, 16 Mar. 2018
  • The park is bounded by two monolithic forces that made the slave trade in the United States possible.
    Kyle Gassiott, NPR, 22 Apr. 2024
  • The monolithic sandstone formations line the foothills on the west side of Boulder.
    Lauren Beale, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022
  • The abode is positioned on a cul-de-sac and tucked behind a gate, kind of like a modern, monolithic fortress.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Whether that means Series S will have the same monolithic shape as Series X remains to be seen.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 9 Aug. 2020
  • The Bibliothèque Nationale de France is a complex of monolithic glass towers that line the Seine near the eastern edge of the city.
    James McAuley, Town & Country, 6 Aug. 2019
  • It cannot be defined by a blanket term or monolithic idea.
    Brenda Barrientos, refinery29.com, 8 Oct. 2020
  • On top of that, neither the recording nor the publishing side is monolithic.
    Richard James Burgess, Billboard, 16 Apr. 2018
  • While the roots of these Jewish cookbooks may come from the same tree, the category is not monolithic.
    Rebecca Firkser, Bon Appétit, 20 Dec. 2022
  • Vaccine resisters have been around a long time, and are hardly a monolithic group.
    Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 17 Sep. 2021
  • The same classic black-and-white striped swimsuit that launched the original doll — and a monolithic Margot Robbie in the movie.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 8 Mar. 2024
  • One of the great merits of Johnson’s book is his insistence that the Chinese are not monolithic.
    Ian Buruma, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2023
  • The large kitchen features monolithic-style islands, counters and a bar.
    Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Nov. 2022
  • Of course, the industry isn’t monolithic and thus strategies vary.
    Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Apr. 2018
  • There was criticism in New York that the play’s vision of gay culture was monolithic.
    Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The church likes to present itself as monolithic, but in the religion’s brief lifetime, many sects have broken off.
    Sarah Scoles, Longreads, 8 June 2018
  • The team owners who are down with this – and no, NFL owners are not a monolithic group – should really take stock of the messages in their end zones.
    Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2020
  • But in the cloud, the monolithic network perimeter is no longer relevant.
    John Grange, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • Winder spotlights how the vast influence of these women on the Stones has largely been hidden in the shadow of the band’s monolithic mythos.
    Jessica Hopper, Washington Post, 13 July 2023
  • In the Wyoming home, pine paneling was replaced with earthen plaster; the hearth is a monolithic stone slab.
    Amy Gamerman, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • That pressure is intense, and Union, which starts in the spring of 2021, simmers like a present-day techno-thriller in which the scrappy underdogs face down a monolithic corporation.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 18 Oct. 2024
  • But Latinos come from many different cultural backgrounds, so a monolithic message does not speak to all Latinos, if any.
    Aisha Wallace-Palomares, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024

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