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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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A pyramid of gold-colored rods was situated over the bed.

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

That then increases to 48% in instances where Premier League clubs have bought players from lower down the English football pyramid.

From BBC ● Sep. 1, 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

Egypt is a yellow trapezoid with one right angle, and looks like the cornerstone of a pyramid.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

It rules the Mississippi as definitively as the pyramids of Egypt rule the Nile, but speaking of a bright future rather than inexorable fate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

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

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

In his decade at City, Guardiola has not just shaped elite football and the game in the league's pyramids.

From BBC ● May 18, 2026

He could close his eyes and see them still: flames whirling from brick pyramids larger than any castle he had ever seen, plumes of greasy smoke coiling upward like great black snakes.

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

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

Early-form favorites among the bars are the English pub, the Bavarian beer garden, Trinidad-Tobago's lively pavilion where steel bands and limbo dancers perform all day, and Ontario's pyramided pavilion.

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 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

Yet the count works day & night pyramiding his holdings ever higher.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus denuded, the conspiracy charge, to Romiti's eyes at least, seemed one of "inference pyramiding on inference."

From Time Magazine Archive

Despite his many sources of revenue, Daylight's pyramiding kept him pinched for cash throughout the first winter.

From Burning Daylight by Jack London


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