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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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The campaign has since gained the support of more than 80 clubs across Germany, from east to west and up and down the pyramid.

From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026

Once activated, they created a kind of wormhole in the pyramid through which altruistic aliens from the star cluster Pleiades would emerge.

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 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 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

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

That squeeze on the calendar would be felt all the way down the pyramids domestically and affect the structure of the game in every single country.

From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026

Their itinerary included roasting marshmallows, competing in potato-sack races and building human pyramids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

“If I send the Brazen Beasts into the pyramids, it will mean open war inside the city. I have to trust in Hizdahr. I have to hope for peace.”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

The howls of local citizens evicted from apartments to make room for visitors have been loud and anguished, and rents have pyramided.

From Time Magazine Archive

His funeral took place almost within sight of the house where he was born and of the daily on which he pyramided an empire.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

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

He was now bulling the market by matching orders, pyramiding stock which he owned, using every device that was known to his astute brain.

From Constance Dunlap by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve




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