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
Adjective
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There is a mutual readiness to work to restore relations and gradually solve a colossal amount of systemic strategic problems in the global architecture.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Today’s state-of-the-art LLMs, capable of generating text, writing codes and analyzing data, rely on colossal infrastructure for training, storage and inference.—
Gerui Wang,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
7 Mar. 2025
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Some knobby with new growth, some short or gigantic, some suffering or shrunken, some reaching over paths and roads.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
5 Mar. 2025
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Here’s where innocent bystanders will get hurt in a political gang war between two titanic egos.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Feb. 2025
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Fury’s latest defeat to Usyk set up the possibility of a titanic all-British clash with Anthony Joshua, a fight which has been talked about for years.—
Ben Morse,
CNN,
14 Jan. 2025
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Updike captured not only the ball’s trajectory and its monumental effect but also the moment’s mix of jubilation and relief.—
Louisa Thomas,
The New Yorker,
9 Mar. 2025
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And for the 25 percent of Americans who experience insomnia every year, finding your best bedroom setup for sleep can be a monumental task.—
Louryn Strampe,
WIRED,
9 Mar. 2025
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The decision to remove the enormous mural near the White House comes after a U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., introduced legislation earlier this week that gave D.C. an ultimatum: either paint over the slogan or risk losing federal funding.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
8 Mar. 2025
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There are also the now-traditional summer preseason schedules of European clubs who spend a few weeks in America playing before enormous crowds before kicking off their new seasons back home.—
Ian Nicholas Quillen,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Nevertheless, companies will have to figure out how to survive the gap between today’s high costs and minimal utility for the eventual astronomical ROI of AI.—
Chris Perry,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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His rapid rise to political power is accompanied by great uncertainty about what motivates him—and whether his desire for astronomical wealth is an integral part of the equation or was simply a necessary precondition to securing vast influence.—
Zachary Karabell,
Foreign Affairs,
20 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Blue Ghost is carrying 10 NASA experiments on board, including a drill to measure lunar heat flow, an instrument to collect rock samples and an X-ray imager to study how Earth's magnetic field is impacted by cosmic forces such as solar wind.—
Joe Hernandez,
NPR,
2 Mar. 2025
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As for cosmic weather, March 2 will be quite dreamy, optimistic and social.—
Kyle Thomas,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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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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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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“Monolithic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monolithic. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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