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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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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

Oxford United was founded in 1893 as an amateur club called Headington and now plays in League One - the third tier of the English football pyramid.

From BBC 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

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

When she stepped from behind the bright yellow curtain, which also hid a secret office, she looked as if she’d just walked out of a pyramid in the desert.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

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

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

It’s where the varsity cheerleaders shake their pom-poms during Friday-night football games and make their human pyramids.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

He was particularly afraid of its effect on raw material and farm prices, where a 10% increase in freight costs may be pyramided on its way to the consumer.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Such a measure, he cautioned, was not to be confused with a general sales tax because, he said, the former could not be "pyramided" and ultimately loaded upon the consumer.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 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

With the nation's population rising at the rate of 2,600,000 a year, the needs are pyramiding.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

At the hatch edge, a pyramiding mass of cats paused a moment.

From Feline Red by Robert Sampson




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