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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

She had a blast and proudly reports that her team built the tallest pyramid, with her on top.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

France went ahead with its annual street music festival, the Fete de la Musique, despite the heat, but the Louvre museum in Paris scrapped a free concert under its famous glass pyramid.

From Barron's Jun. 21, 2026

While he wrestled with the doorknob, Zach sent the football cheerleaders to form their human pyramid right beside him.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

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

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 squeeze on the calendar would be felt all the way down the pyramids domestically and affect the structure of the game in every single country.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

I nod and she continues, “Let’s just say this wall was built like the pyramids: most of the builders didn’t live to tell about it, and ain’t no Moses come to liberate them.”

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

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

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

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

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

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

With the nation's population rising at the rate of 2,600,000 a year, the needs are pyramiding.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some European and U.S. bankers fear that the endless lending and relending of Eurodollar balances has already led to a dangerous pyramiding of credit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then they got in on the receiverships, made money at the expense of gullible security holders, and started the same old pyramiding game all over again.

From My Life and Work by Henry Ford




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