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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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Once activated, they created a kind of wormhole in the pyramid through which altruistic aliens from the star cluster Pleiades would emerge.

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

Oxford United was founded in 1893 as an amateur club called Headington and now plays in League One - the third tier of the English football pyramid.

From BBC Sep. 18, 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

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

The event took place near the Great Pyramid of Giza; one photo shows the couple kissing at sunset with the Sphinx and pyramids in the background.

From Salon Sep. 1, 2026

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

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

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

Almost wholly unexcavated since its discovery, the Calakmul we came to lay swathed in dry, scrubby vegetation that crawled like a swarm of thorns up its two huge pyramids.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

Among the standouts were three Alpine landscapes by Bruegel, who turned inches of paper into miles of thousands of mountainside by the application of thousands of tiny ink lines sensitively stitched and pyramided together.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

His funeral took place almost within sight of the house where he was born and of the daily on which he pyramided an empire.

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

"It was luck," he recalled, surveying his pyramiding debts, which chased right after his skyrocketing wealth.

From Time Magazine Archive

While that kind of pyramiding sounds ominous to some, Citicorp's Wriston contends that the chances of default by a major country are "zero."

From Time Magazine Archive

"Ah, you Americans!" laughed M. Ferraud, pyramiding his fingers.

From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath




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