pyramid
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The next Watkins, Eze, Wharton or Semenyo may already be somewhere further down the pyramid.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
The line is like Nolan nudging his audience to say, check this out: a human pyramid of Greek commandos packed into a dark hollow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
They barely finish before other mids start hoisting each other into a crude human pyramid.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
France went ahead with its annual street music festival, the Fete de la Musique, despite the heat, but the Louvre museum in Paris scrapped a free concert under its famous glass pyramid.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 2026
To tell the truth, I wasn’t super-high on this idea, since Lena was not only a cheerleader but also the apex of the pyramid.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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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
The pre-Hispanic pyramids and ruins at Teotihuacán are a Unesco World Heritage Site and among the most popular tourist attractions in the country.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2026
Or they build pyramids and other things for our people.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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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
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The nation's bill for foreign oil pyramided from $3.9 billion in 1972* to $24 billion last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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The paint was stacked in neatly pyramided lots along the concrete floor.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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
But most businessmen blamed the present crazily unbalanced system of controls for the pyramiding secondary shortages that made the overall shortages worse by cutting off what supplies of materials there were.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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We seem, here, to have an endless, and vicious, circle in value causation, the value mounting indefinitely, building upon itself, a sort of "pyramiding" process.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
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