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
They barely finish before other mids start hoisting each other into a crude human pyramid.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Emiliano Zapata’s face floats next to an Aztec pyramid, and a pachuco hangs out with a female Brown Beret.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
The new dietary guidelines encourage people to consume red meat regularly, and illustrations of steak and ground beef sit prominently at the top of the food pyramid.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
At the produce market he stacked a pyramid of oranges on the top and kept two more sackfuls in the cabinet underneath.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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
“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
In his decade at City, Guardiola has not just shaped elite football and the game in the league's pyramids.
From BBC ● May 18, 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
I picture myself at the top of the Eiffel Tower, climbing pyramids in Egypt, dancing in the streets in Spain, riding in a boat in Venice, and walking on the Great Wall of China.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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Before the picture winds up in a sequence of skillfully pyramided gags, Dailey proves himself both a hero and a willing instructor in bussing�and, as moviegoers already know, an engaging song & dance man.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They have pyramided a single small butcher shop into a chain of 131 big stores, the seventh biggest food chain in the U.S.
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 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
But most businessmen blamed the present crazily unbalanced system of controls for the pyramiding secondary shortages that made the overall shortages worse by cutting off what supplies of materials there were.
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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In fact, he played the dangerous game of pyramiding, and no more perilous pyramiding than in a placer camp could be imagined.
From Burning Daylight by London, Jack
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