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
And that’s just the top of a giant pyramid of charitable work built by African players.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
The new dietary guidelines encourage people to consume red meat regularly, and illustrations of steak and ground beef sit prominently at the top of the food pyramid.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
“And the Pharaoh’s pyramid and sphinx would be sandy if they weren’t made out of Legos.”
From "Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library" by Chris Grabenstein
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
A Glasgow academic who was on top of Mexico's Teotihuacán pyramids when a gunman opened fire has told how she escaped by scrambling down its steep ledges.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 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
The Egyptians also learned how to measure the volumes of objects—like pyramids.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Well, perhaps he had been the richest man in Germany, for a time, while the mark was falling, and he was building great pyramided super-trusts.
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
Meanwhile Billie Jean and Husband-Partner Larry have pyramided her skill and name into a tidy little conglomerate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Thus denuded, the conspiracy charge, to Romiti's eyes at least, seemed one of "inference pyramiding on inference."
From Time Magazine Archive
While that kind of pyramiding sounds ominous to some, Citicorp's Wriston contends that the chances of default by a major country are "zero."
From Time Magazine Archive
"I could have made more by pyramiding, but I thought it best to pull out while I was sure."
From Torchy As A Pa by Ford, Sewell
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