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  • noun Plural form of monolith.

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Examples

  • I am interested to know if the placement of these cedar pole 'monoliths' will be astronomically relevant.

    OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media' 2009

  • We did this to prevent the formation of big monoliths that funded their industrial businesses out of their bank businesses.

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Moral Hazard Continued at GMAC 2009

  • Kurt Wilberding/The Wall Street Journal A white and olive green leather bag against one of Joseph Beuys's stone monoliths on 22nd Street.

    The Things They Carried 2011

  • The verdant structures, though polite company would more likely call them sculpture, even living art, and ranging from 7-foot monoliths to a 25-foot arch, were created by constructing steel cages with a built-in irrigation system.

    A Hedge Grows in Midtown Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

  • To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us most — suspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or another — are defeated.

    How to Write in 700 Easy Lessons 2010

  • Or should critical analysis of corporate monoliths and those who support them be another option that is eliminated?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf 2010

  • Or should critical analysis of corporate monoliths and those who support them be another option that is eliminated?

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf 2010

  • Tried and True You don't need living room-consuming monoliths to have audiophile-grade music at home.

    $22,000 Speakers That Could Save Your Marriage 2011

  • Arguments for the monolothic corporations tend to be arguments against freedom because by their very nature, said monoliths seek to eliminate competing options.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf 2010

  • That something relates to hundreds of monoliths, their goal to create life on the Jovian moon of Europa, and a climax that alters the structure of the solar system.

    All These Worlds Are Yours… « Screaming Blue Reviews 2010

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