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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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He eventually stopped pursuing a career as a professional and spent 13 years with clubs across the non-league pyramid.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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

Was it my fault they hadn’t noticed me, browsing through Smash Hits behind a pyramid of Pedigree Chum cans?

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell

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

After surveying his pyramids of cans, arrayed spices and stacks of noodle soup, they issued him a 2,500-euro fine, equivalent to around $2,866.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

He stood on sand, between a sphinx and closely set pyramids, the words “Carl Laemmle Presents Boris Karloff In” hovering before them.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

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

The best special displays are big and impossible to avoid, i.e., pyramided in the center of the aisle, thus bringing traffic to a halt.

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

Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor.

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

"It was luck," he recalled, surveying his pyramiding debts, which chased right after his skyrocketing wealth.

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

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

From Feline Red by Robert Sampson




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