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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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That then increases to 48% in instances where Premier League clubs have bought players from lower down the English football pyramid.

From BBC Sep. 1, 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

I’d run my fingers across the convex pyramid textures in the same way other people lay under a weighted blanket or ate sour candy, jolting my subconscious back into the here and now.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

In his final letter to investors, Robertson didn’t mince words, calling the craze “a Ponzi pyramid destined for collapse.”

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

The next server slapped margarine on two bread squares, which he laid like a pyramid over the eggs.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

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

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

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

From Salon Jun. 7, 2026

I'd seen hundreds of photos of these ancient stepped pyramids, but how could there be one in Central Park without anyone having noticed?

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

Such a measure, he cautioned, was not to be confused with a general sales tax because, he said, the former could not be "pyramided" and ultimately loaded upon the consumer.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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 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

In recent years it has become a pyramiding proposition: the more good works Medical Missionary Albert Schweitzer performs, the more money he gets to carry them forward faster.

From Time Magazine Archive

After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer.

From Time Magazine Archive

He knew instinctively the principles of "pyramiding" and "kiting."

From The Financier, a novel by Theodore Dreiser




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