pyramid
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In his final letter to investors, Robertson didn’t mince words, calling the craze “a Ponzi pyramid destined for collapse.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
Soccer pyramid will only be as strong as the grassroots base supporting it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
In Egypt, there are only two pyramid replicas, and since the room has a dry heat, the employees are offering Nile River-brand water bottles.
From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera
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“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
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
In a very short time they had accumulated all sorts of fascinating facts about tombs and temples, pharaohs and pyramids, mummies and monoliths, and dozens of other exotic topics.
From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
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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
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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
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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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Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
If the price then rises 5%, he can buy another $100,000 of futures with his $5,000 paper profit, and so on and on in a process known as pyramiding.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Yet the count works day & night pyramiding his holdings ever higher.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Mass production, mass marketing and pyramiding profits resulted, first and foremost in the enrichment of businessmen.
From Civilization and Beyond Learning from History by Nearing, Scott
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