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ziggurat

[zig-oo-rat] / ˈzɪg ʊˌræt /


NOUN
steeple
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Sotheby’s has moved into Marcel Breuer’s 1966 modernist landmark that looks like an inverted ziggurat and once famously housed the Whitney Museum of American Art.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

There, we set out to erect the planet’s first skyscraper: a ziggurat that would bridge heaven and earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

I also understood that he had something in common with the builders of the world’s first ziggurat.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 14, 2023

Still, Sevigny’s choices remain throughout, living on as perpetual inspiration: backlit wooden mashrabiya mirrors; ziggurat windows; the carved paneling from York Castle on the walls of the library; and wooden parapets on the terraces.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2021

The middle of the ziggurat was more untamed jungle than greenhouse.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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