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Noun
Many luxury players in recent years have been reducing their retail footprint, closing stores and various points of sale in favor of investing in more extravagant mono-brand premises.—Ming Liu, Robb Report, 24 May 2026 The city’s cultural scene is built on the idea that people from different traditions and disciplines, when brought together, create a cosmopolitan reality that no mono cultural city can replicate.—Mina Al-Oraibi, Time, 14 Apr. 2026 The onboard 5-watt mono speaker delivered good-enough quality in our tests for casual use and enough volume for a medium-size family room.—M. David Stone, PC Magazine, 1 Apr. 2026 Cameras with professional lenses longer than 3 inches, GoPros, video recorders and mono/tripods on game days.—Ed Masley, AZCentral.com, 31 Mar. 2026 While Bluetooth audio began as a low-bandwidth, mono voice technology over Basic Rate (BR) radio in 1999, more than 25 years of evolution has produced a fundamental architectural shift.—IEEE Spectrum, 26 Feb. 2026 The more kinds of plants, the more defenses to fend off the blights and insect infestations that ran unobstructed through landowners’ large mono-crop fields.—Literary Hub, 19 Feb. 2026 There are two fully discreet Class A/B dual-mono amps on board, one for each channel.—New Atlas, 17 Feb. 2026 Unlike mono-brand retailers, department stores are primarily selling other people’s products.—Sarah Jones, Footwear News, 23 Jan. 2026
Adjective
Another of Pong’s fanciful mid-nineties creations was a mountain bike with a mono-blade suspension fork, a concept that Cannondale turned into the Lefty not long after.—Joe Lindsey, Outside Online, 11 Dec. 2020 Actress Eva Mendes recently shared her experience undergoing a mono-thread facial treatment, where acupuncture-like pins, or threads, were injected around the contour of her jawline.—Megan Decker, refinery29.com, 5 Dec. 2020