pyramid
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One, he said, showed someone sliding down a pyramid feature.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 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
And that’s just the top of a giant pyramid of charitable work built by African players.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026
Now that, my boy, is a Wonder that’s higher than your highest pyramid and deeper than your deep blue seas.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
The bout, which will take place at the foot of the pyramids of Giza, is widely viewed as a major mismatch - with critics questioning why a world title is at stake.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
Picturesque wind instruments suddenly burst forth as if a flock of birds were flying over the pyramids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
The pyramids rise not far from its banks.
From Slate ● Feb. 25, 2026
From the northern end of the avenue rose the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon, each as big as the biggest Egyptian pyramids.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
This epidemic pyramided public reaction to a far higher point than usual.*
From Time Magazine Archive
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 nation's bill for foreign oil pyramided from $3.9 billion in 1972* to $24 billion last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
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
In recent years it has become a pyramiding proposition: the more good works Medical Missionary Albert Schweitzer performs, the more money he gets to carry them forward faster.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the hatch edge, a pyramiding mass of cats paused a moment.
From Feline Red by Sampson, Robert
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