pyramidal

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Harnett adopted the traditional pyramidal structure of Dutch tabletop paintings for “Ease,” at 48 by 60 inches one of his largest and most ambitious works.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Last year, Estonia furnished the bridge with dragon's teeth – pyramidal anti-tank obstacles of reinforced concrete.

From BBC • Mar. 20, 2025

The metals dissolve the carbon gas, and the silicon appears to somehow help the carbon atoms bond to one another in diamond’s pyramidal arrangement.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 24, 2024

The pyramidal view of the world that I grew up with — Man as the crown of creation, with all other animals, four-legged, feathered and scaled, ranked and devalued downward — has never made sense.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024

It was an enormous pyramidal structure of glittering white concrete, soaring up, terrace after terrace, three hundred meters into the air.

From "1984" by George Orwell