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- postpyramidal adjective
- pyramidally adverb
- subpyramidal adjective
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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
Everywhere there is the same pyramidal structure, the same worship of a semidivine leader, the same economy existing by and for continuous warfare.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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