pyramid
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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
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
The next Watkins, Eze, Wharton or Semenyo may already be somewhere further down the pyramid.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Another took on the shape of a pyramid.
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
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
With majestic temples, markets and pyramids linked by canals and causeways, Tenochtitlan was home at its peak to some 200,000 people.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 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
She saw herself slipping between the pyramids in a long white robe.
From "Hello, Universe" by Erin Entrada Kelly
Meanwhile Billie Jean and Husband-Partner Larry have pyramided her skill and name into a tidy little conglomerate.
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
Well, perhaps he had been the richest man in Germany, for a time, while the mark was falling, and he was building great pyramided super-trusts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Yet the count works day & night pyramiding his holdings ever higher.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Something was about to happen ... to him it was unmistakable, in the very atmosphere, sharpened and heightened by the four walls—a pervading sense of wrongness and a pyramiding tension.
From We're Friends, Now by Mel Varga
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