pyramid
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He eventually stopped pursuing a career as a professional and spent 13 years with clubs across the non-league pyramid.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
At a store selling harmonic healing devices, I watched a man cradle a swaddled Chihuahua within a 9-foot-tall golden pyramid structure in an attempt to heal the dog’s vertigo.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The solution comes to Cartman in a dream, courtesy of Aunt Jemima: the food pyramid is upside down.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
Bronson Cvijanovich, a former graduate student in the Department of Geology & Geophysics, noted that this is also about the same volume as the largest pyramid at Giza in Egypt.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me at all to find a great pyramid sitting in her lap some day, crocheted in her favorite shades of pink and blue.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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The event took place near the Great Pyramid of Giza; one photo shows the couple kissing at sunset with the Sphinx and pyramids in the background.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026
The research focused on six royal mummies originally uncovered during the 1890s at Dahshur, an Egyptian burial complex containing pyramids and shaft tombs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Visiting international fans have rhapsodized about our hospitality and gushed over culinary miracles like ranch dressing and Philly cheesesteak while trekking to Costco like it is our version of the pyramids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Even Imhotep, for all his work on the early pyramids, seems to have inspired only small figurines, and only when he became a deity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
But his “displays” are only ever pyramids of canned pears, and the plastic sheets make the inside of his shop feel like a photograph from Victorian times.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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Meanwhile Billie Jean and Husband-Partner Larry have pyramided her skill and name into a tidy little conglomerate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In 1930-33, Odlum, with cash in hand, picked up control of enormous pools of capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Gradually his original $20,000 investment pyramided into Tecon Corp., a general construction company that now has assets of $10 million.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The best special displays are big and impossible to avoid, i.e., pyramided in the center of the aisle, thus bringing traffic to a halt.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The paint was stacked in neatly pyramided lots along the concrete floor.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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If the pyramiding and true risks had been understood by investors, they would not likely have parted with their money.
From Salon ● May 5, 2013
Some in the world of taxes would describe that as pyramiding.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2010
"It was luck," he recalled, surveying his pyramiding debts, which chased right after his skyrocketing wealth.
From Time Magazine Archive
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With the nation's population rising at the rate of 2,600,000 a year, the needs are pyramiding.
From Time Magazine Archive
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In fact, he played the dangerous game of pyramiding, and no more perilous pyramiding than in a placer camp could be imagined.
From Burning Daylight by Jack London
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