Its diamonds are mounted upside-down, with the V-shaped base on top.

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The stock is in its seventh week of a price consolidation, and appears that it may be forming a cup-shaped base, which can be a precursor of price strength ahead.

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Irregularly shaped openings emanate from the base and are concentrated around the thin edge of the wedge-shaped building.

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The surgeon removed one lobe and the isthmus of the barbell-shaped gland at the base of my neck.

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The authorities have said they want to develop an olive-shaped society, with a fat base in the middle.

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To add flavor to the delicate, bullet-shaped green, Mr. Stitt first builds a base by softening bacon (preferably cut from a slab) in olive oil.

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Populations in the West and Japan are no longer pyramid-shaped as they used to be, with a big base of younger people and few pensioners at the top.

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Funnel clouds look like cone-shaped or thin rope-like protuberances which hang down from the cloud base, and often do not last very long.

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