pyramid
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The solution comes to Cartman in a dream, courtesy of Aunt Jemima: the food pyramid is upside down.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
That then increases to 48% in instances where Premier League clubs have bought players from lower down the English football pyramid.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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
Such pyramid arrangements have since been known as “Ponzi schemes.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Now that, my boy, is a Wonder that’s higher than your highest pyramid and deeper than your deep blue seas.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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
Their itinerary included roasting marshmallows, competing in potato-sack races and building human pyramids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
“It will be done,” he said, “but Your Radiance should know that the Great Masters of Zhak and Merreq are making preparations to quit their pyramids and leave the city.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
This epidemic pyramided public reaction to a far higher point than usual.*
From Time Magazine Archive
The nation's bill for foreign oil pyramided from $3.9 billion in 1972* to $24 billion last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
The paint was stacked in neatly pyramided lots along the concrete floor.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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
If the price then rises 5%, he can buy another $100,000 of futures with his $5,000 paper profit, and so on and on in a process known as pyramiding.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thousands upon thousands the cones bristled, pyramiding to the base of one tremendous spire that tapered up almost to the top of the shaft itself.
From The Metal Monster by Abraham Merritt
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