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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

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

Today, the excavated base of the Templo Mayor, the step pyramid topped with altars to the Aztec gods of war and rain, is an open-air archaeological site.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

In Egypt, there are only two pyramid replicas, and since the room has a dry heat, the employees are offering Nile River-brand water bottles.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

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

That pyramid book had made everything sound true, but it was hard to imagine pyramids being real.

From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder

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

This epidemic pyramided public reaction to a far higher point than usual.*

From Time Magazine Archive

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

The best special displays are big and impossible to avoid, i.e., pyramided in the center of the aisle, thus bringing traffic to a halt.

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

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

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

"Ah, you Americans!" laughed M. Ferraud, pyramiding his fingers.

From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath




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