pyramid
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That year he was named architect for the Grand Louvre project in Paris, which also yielded a large glass pyramid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
UBS expects this trend to continue and to make the shape of the global wealth pyramid obsolete before the end of the decade.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
They barely finish before other mids start hoisting each other into a crude human pyramid.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Broader wellness trends, the new food pyramid and social-media trends like so-called “protein-maxxing” have created more demand for protein.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 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
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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
Even Imhotep, for all his work on the early pyramids, seems to have inspired only small figurines, and only when he became a deity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The Teotihuacán is an ancient city, home to massive pyramids, and predates the Aztecs.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
Against the view that such great construction projects were unlikely, Kepler offered as counter-examples the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China, which can, in fact, be seen today from Earth orbit.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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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
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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
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Meanwhile Billie Jean and Husband-Partner Larry have pyramided her skill and name into a tidy little conglomerate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 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
Amid Sir Edward Bridges' somber tables of vanishing export trade, dwindling foreign balances and pyramiding debts, were others even darker.
From Time Magazine Archive
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This plausible solution had only one flaw: how would "a few cents" increase be kept from pyramiding, ending up far more on the retail price?
From Time Magazine Archive
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At the hatch edge, a pyramiding mass of cats paused a moment.
From Feline Red by Sampson, Robert
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