pyramid
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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
The next Watkins, Eze, Wharton or Semenyo may already be somewhere further down the pyramid.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
I’d run my fingers across the convex pyramid textures in the same way other people lay under a weighted blanket or ate sour candy, jolting my subconscious back into the here and now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
The line is like Nolan nudging his audience to say, check this out: a human pyramid of Greek commandos packed into a dark hollow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
We watch some of the nearby crowd form a human pyramid on top of a Spinosaurus, with unfettered teamwork that would’ve made even the best gymnasts jealous.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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With majestic temples, markets and pyramids linked by canals and causeways, Tenochtitlan was home at its peak to some 200,000 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Spend enough years standing behind pyramids of hamburgers, posing at fry stations and inserting yourself into the iconography of American restaurant chains, and eventually the props begin to accrue meanings of their own.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 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
And all the temples, towers, palaces, pyramids, and bridges cast long, disastrous- looking shadows in the light of that withered sun.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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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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When he wasn't twanging out patter, he pyramided cigar boxes on his chin and twirled hats through the air as "Freddy James, the World's Worst Juggler."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Among the standouts were three Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together.
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
After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Thus denuded, the conspiracy charge, to Romiti's eyes at least, seemed one of "inference pyramiding on inference."
From Time Magazine Archive
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He stacked them one upon the other, pyramiding them under the trap-door through which he had fallen into the cellar.
From The Master Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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