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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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One, he said, showed someone sliding down a pyramid feature.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

They barely finish before other mids start hoisting each other into a crude human pyramid.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

Broader wellness trends, the new food pyramid and social-media trends like so-called “protein-maxxing” have created more demand for protein.

From MarketWatch Jun. 11, 2026

And that’s just the top of a giant pyramid of charitable work built by African players.

From Los Angeles Times May 19, 2026

In Egypt, there are only two pyramid replicas, and since the room has a dry heat, the employees are offering Nile River-brand water bottles.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

The Somers IBM plant sits on a hilltop, ringed by woods, its pyramids visible from nearby Interstate 684.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2026

Teotihuacán, the collection of ancient, pre-Hispanic pyramids and temples and listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, was closed in the wake of the shooting.

From BBC Apr. 21, 2026

Picturesque wind instruments suddenly burst forth as if a flock of birds were flying over the pyramids.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 5, 2026

That pyramid book had made everything sound true, but it was hard to imagine pyramids being real.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

They have pyramided a single small butcher shop into a chain of 131 big stores, the seventh biggest food chain in the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Early-form favorites among the bars are the English pub, the Bavarian beer garden, Trinidad-Tobago's lively pavilion where steel bands and limbo dancers perform all day, and Ontario's pyramided pavilion.

From Time Magazine Archive

This epidemic pyramided public reaction to a far higher point than usual.*

From Time Magazine Archive

Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

The agricultural depression, taken together with a series of failed reforms and broken political promises, had pyramided to a climax of social tensions.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

This plausible solution had only one flaw: how would "a few cents" increase be kept from pyramiding, ending up far more on the retail price?

From Time Magazine Archive

Some European and U.S. bankers fear that the endless lending and relending of Eurodollar balances has already led to a dangerous pyramiding of credit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Something was about to happen ... to him it was unmistakable, in the very atmosphere, sharpened and heightened by the four walls—a pervading sense of wrongness and a pyramiding tension.

From We're Friends, Now by Varga, Mel




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