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
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
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
Any movement of the pyramid will cause it to topple over.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
The Somers IBM plant sits on a hilltop, ringed by woods, its pyramids visible from nearby Interstate 684.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
It rules the Mississippi as definitively as the pyramids of Egypt rule the Nile, but speaking of a bright future rather than inexorable fate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
Game nights in the concession stand hit occasional lulls, so Theo and I entertained ourselves making plastic cup pyramids and talking about English class.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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In 1930-33, Odlum, with cash in hand, picked up control of enormous pools of capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars.
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 nation's bill for foreign oil pyramided from $3.9 billion in 1972* to $24 billion last year.
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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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
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
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They were protesting the bureau's inefficiency and its indifference to the pyramiding problems faced by Indians, especially in the cities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He knew instinctively the principles of "pyramiding" and "kiting."
From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser
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