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ziggurat

[zig-oo-rat] / ˈzɪg ʊˌræt /


NOUN
steeple
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Olympia, his elusive love and sporadic muse, flits in and out of his life as she works her way up the tiers of the art world’s ziggurat.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 8, 2026

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

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

Arquitectonica’s beachfront apartment house, the Babylon, for instance, with its multiple interwoven ziggurat wings, was condemned before it reached age 40.

From New York Times Sep. 1, 2022

The storm continued to rage inside and outside the ziggurat.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda




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