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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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A pyramid of gold-colored rods was situated over the bed.

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

Both of those take place inside the Tyrell Building, an enormous double pyramid structure that houses the Tyrell Corporation, the company that manufactures the replicants.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

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

Their itinerary included roasting marshmallows, competing in potato-sack races and building human pyramids.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.

From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026

The sphinx and pyramids were built by people fed on crops originally native to the Fertile Crescent, not to Egypt.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Gradually his original $20,000 investment pyramided into Tecon Corp., a general construction company that now has assets of $10 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

Meanwhile Billie Jean and Husband-Partner Larry have pyramided her skill and name into a tidy little conglomerate.

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

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

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

Winter stress can be aggravated by the thought of pyramiding fuel bills and the cost of coffee and the unavailability of vegetables.

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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