as in colossal
unusually large
The explorers stumbled upon an ancient castle of monolithic proportions.
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Recent Examples of monolithic
Being a woman in the film industry is not a monolithic experience and nor is being displaced.
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Marta Balaga, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
Goodbye monolithic workloads, hello edge orchestration The landscape is poised for a shift away from isolated monolithic workloads towards end-to-end full-stack edge solutions designed to support a new era of alternative virtualization and containerization requirements for AI workloads.
—Pierluca Chiodelli, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
There is also an underlying appreciation for Black political consciousness and fluidity, a welcome contrast to the mass media depiction of a monolithic voting bloc.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
Though known for her monolithic singularity as a solo artist — and for striking power poses in the spotlight — Beyoncé put a version of herself on display during this show that felt especially generous, eager to share the moment.
—Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Marta Balaga, Variety, 1 Feb. 2025
Goodbye monolithic workloads, hello edge orchestration The landscape is poised for a shift away from isolated monolithic workloads towards end-to-end full-stack edge solutions designed to support a new era of alternative virtualization and containerization requirements for AI workloads.
—Pierluca Chiodelli, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2025
There is also an underlying appreciation for Black political consciousness and fluidity, a welcome contrast to the mass media depiction of a monolithic voting bloc.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Jan. 2025
Though known for her monolithic singularity as a solo artist — and for striking power poses in the spotlight — Beyoncé put a version of herself on display during this show that felt especially generous, eager to share the moment.
—Lindsay Zoladz, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monolithic
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While most coffee cake recipes don’t involve any coffee at all, these colossal bakery-style muffins take the recipe name a bit more literally.—
Katlyn Moncada,
Better Homes & Gardens,
16 Feb. 2025
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Despite its colossal size, the look managed to exude an ethereal aura with its floaty, sheer layers and curved draping details on the sweetheart-neckline bodice.—
Justine Fisher,
People.com,
14 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This is the Hoosiers’ second gigantic Quad 1 win in the past two weeks, including a win at Michigan State.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
23 Feb. 2025
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One of the puzzles in Animal Well (2024) requires memorizing a route to escape a gigantic ghost cat.—
Lewis Gordon,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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Sources say that Lindo will play Dever’s boss at Monarch, the shady scientific organization that sometimes helps, sometimes hunts the titanic creatures.—
Borys Kit,
The Hollywood Reporter,
21 Feb. 2025
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The Colorado Avalanche star is out of the lineup for Canada in its titanic showdown with the United States at Bell Centre in the 4 Nations Face-Off because of an illness.—
Corey Masisak,
The Denver Post,
15 Feb. 2025
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As generative AI reshapes the business landscape, C-suite leaders face the monumental task of balancing innovation with governance.—
Mohan Koo,
Forbes,
26 Feb. 2025
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To come back to a job like NBA coaching feels like a monumental task.—
Zach Harper,
The Athletic,
24 Feb. 2025
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Trump demanded $500 billion in Ukraine's minerals as repayment for U.S. assistance, but Zelenskyy retorted that American aid hasn't come close to that enormous figure.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Lower fertility rates seem correlated with the perception that proper child development depends upon enormous amounts of personal attention.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Now, researchers are trying to figure out what extreme astronomical event created the particle and sent it flying toward Earth.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN,
15 Feb. 2025
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That's because even hydrogen, by far the universe's most abundant element, emits only a faint glow that our astronomical instruments have struggled to observe between stars and galaxies.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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Stern thinks the dwarf planet distinction is nonsensical—an arbitrary parsing of cosmic definitions.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
18 Feb. 2025
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But there is an earlier milestone that takes the band’s journey into the cosmic and consequential: On July 21, 1969, Led Zeppelin played The Schaefer Music Festival in Central Park, the same date that Apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon.—
Steve Appleford,
SPIN,
17 Feb. 2025
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Like Amazon, which used its perch in e-commerce to build a powerhouse cloud computing business, Walmart has taken advantage of its mammoth retail base to grow with e-commerce, add on an advertising business and collect more dollars from membership programs.—
Evan Clark,
WWD,
27 Feb. 2025
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The film, which has been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, centers on the efforts of fictional protagonist László Tóth to realize a mammoth, bunkerlike, concrete structure that will house a community center in Pennsylvania.—
Michael Allen,
The Conversation,
27 Feb. 2025
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“Monolithic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monolithic. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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