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How to use the word monolithic in a Sentence?

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For years, Democratic leaders misunderstood the Hispanic community as a monolithic one, which it is not. In both parties, for any leader of the future, it would be key to be able to understand this community, the number one minority in the nation, and to be able to speak to them.

Republican Miami Mayor Francis Suarez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Some folks want to competitively shoot, some folks want to have a self-defense strategy at home... Some want to conceal carry when they leave their house. We're not monolithic, and we're very, very intuitive in terms of what we want long term as it relates to firearms.

Philip Smith

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The big issue here is that traditionally the commission does not negotiate with the parties. They negotiate with the candidates, another interesting open question is if you read the tea leaves a little bit … They want all the Republican candidates to pledge to no more debates. You can see a world in which, if the candidate is not Donald Trump … a Republican candidate who thinks they really could do well against Biden, think debates are strength, wanting that debate. So it’s not totally monolithic even within the party necessarily.

Ashley Parker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is a country where the suburbs are not anymore monolithic in any way, president Donald Trump wants to talk about the demise of the suburbs and President Donald Trump thinks about them as these White bastions. That is something from the 1950s. A lot of what President Donald Trump is saying is 30 or 40 years old.

William Frey.Read MoreTrump

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Really the reason why they imprisoned him was because he started doing positive for the community, he started showing that he had power, that he wasn't one of a monolithic voice, that he could wrap people around, it's very important for me to get Larry Hoover out because in an alternate universe I am Kim Kardashian West and I have to go and get Larry Hoover free because Larry Hoover was doing positive inside of Chicago, just like how I'm moving back to Chicago(.).

Kim Kardashian

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Just as a musician, African-American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things -- you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me. And then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn't say it out loud or my career would be over, i'd get kicked out of the black community because blacks, we are supposed to have a monolithic thought, we can only be Democrats and all.

Kanye West

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Monuments are seen as permanent, sort of monolithic structures, but inherently their meanings change over time, and really the removal of these monuments was not so much about monuments in general, but about the kind of values that we as a society want to promote.

Jackson Gilman-Forlini

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

A lot of people have typically thought the evangelical vote was monolithic in South Carolina, perhaps in some cycles it has been.

Randy Page

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We are not a monolithic people.

Al Sharpton

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Independents are not monolithic, they run the ideological gamut.

Steven Schale

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The citizens of Baltimore are not monolithic, they think for themselves.

Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

'Transitioning' is frequently treated as this monolithic process, when it's not, it's a lot of really personal little things. For me, 'transitioning' has been cutting my hair and buying more clothes from the men's section.

El Sabrout

Found on CNN
8 years ago

All anti-Muslim hate groups exhibit extreme hostility toward Muslims, anti-Muslim hate groups also broadly defame Islam, which they tend to treat as a monolithic and evil religion. These groups generally hold that Islam has no values in common with other cultures, is inferior to the West and is a violent political ideology rather than a religion.

The SPLC

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Taliban is not a monolithic entity -- there are elements focused on Afghanistan, and there are very much elements focused on destabilizing or even overthrowing the regime in Pakistan … in the seams, there you have Al Qaeda and increasingly ISIS.

Army Lt. Col. Michael Waltz

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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