monorail

as in railroad

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Recent Examples of monorail The Seattle Police Department confirmed Charlotte was last seen on the monorail near the Space Needle in Seattle. Ilana Kaplan, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024 Animal Kingdom visitors will be able to go directly to the park via the shuttle, while those heading to Magic Kingdom will first be taken to a transport hub, Disney’s Ticket and Transportation Center, and can then choose to either take a monorail or ferry to the park from there. Christine Burroni, Travel + Leisure, 6 Oct. 2024 Inglewood’s local authorities have also signed off on plans to increase transport links, including a monorail connecting to the metro system, and United are looking at whether there is merit for similar public-private partnerships in their proposals. Laurie Whitwell, The Athletic, 29 July 2024 As of midday Wednesday, Wolfe reported that the Disney’s monorail and riverboats were still running. Erin Clements, People.com, 9 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for monorail 
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Noun
  • The mythology surrounding James himself likewise had many authors, all converging toward portraying him as a dashing foe of the bankers and railroad barons who had come to represent the inequities of America’s Gilded Age.
    Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2025
  • By the 1950s, the railroad’s checkerboard sections of the Palm Springs area became wealthy and white while the Agua Caliente’s checkerboard sections on the reservation became the home of comparatively poorer Tribal communities.
    Michael Albertus, TIME, 15 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Moscow also hopes to build a railway through Iran that would connect Russia directly with ports on the Persian Gulf.
    Ivan Nechepurenko, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The film, which made its world premiere at the International Film Festival of India last year, follows a meticulous railway ticket checker whose discovery of minor bank discrepancies leads him down a dangerous path of systemic corruption.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 Jan. 2025
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  • Saboteurs have targeted a number of other strategically significant assets in Europe—munitions factories, crucial rail lines—along with civilian infrastructure such as warehouses and malls.
    Phillips Payson O’Brien, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • New footage of California's high-speed rail project has revealed how much progress has been made.
    Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 12 Jan. 2025
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  • The agency then returned on Thursday, Jan. 16 and discovered the home had split and slid onto the road.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
  • Everything, whether success or failure, becomes critical fodder for the road ahead.
    Doug Sundheim, Forbes, 18 Jan. 2025

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“Monorail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monorail. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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