pyramid
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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
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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
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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
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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
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This epidemic pyramided public reaction to a far higher point than usual.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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