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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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The area under Pei’s now-iconic pyramid, where most visitors enter and almost everyone must leave, has “very nice light,” said Mr. Leribault, and “each angle has been designed.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Mikel Arteta's Premier League champions lost 5-3 on penalties to a Fleetwood outfit ranked 84 places below them in the English football pyramid.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

This era includes the pyramid age of Giza and its mighty pharaohs.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

At a store selling harmonic healing devices, I watched a man cradle a swaddled Chihuahua within a 9-foot-tall golden pyramid structure in an attempt to heal the dog’s vertigo.

From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026

That look stung more than I thought it would; I shifted and hid behind the pyramid, my face burning.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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

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

Visiting international fans have rhapsodized about our hospitality and gushed over culinary miracles like ranch dressing and Philly cheesesteak while trekking to Costco like it is our version of the pyramids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

Rather than a single tent with rings enclosed within, this circus contains clusters of tents like pyramids, some large and others quite small.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

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

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

In 1930-33, Odlum, with cash in hand, picked up control of enormous pools of capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars.

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

They were protesting the bureau's inefficiency and its indifference to the pyramiding problems faced by Indians, especially in the cities.

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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