pyramid
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The next Watkins, Eze, Wharton or Semenyo may already be somewhere further down the pyramid.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
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
UBS expects this trend to continue and to make the shape of the global wealth pyramid obsolete before the end of the decade.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
The sky erupted with another thunderous roar as a pyramid of six jets flew high above the twin white spires of the Saints Peter and Paul Church.
From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman
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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
Teotihuacán, the collection of ancient, pre-Hispanic pyramids and temples and listed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, was closed in the wake of the shooting.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2026
Amaka bargained with the trader for a while, and then she smiled and pointed at the pyramids she wanted.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The nation's bill for foreign oil pyramided from $3.9 billion in 1972* to $24 billion last year.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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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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
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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
To avoid pyramiding, each new permanent project has been financed independently.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Despite his many sources of revenue, Daylight's pyramiding kept him pinched for cash throughout the first winter.
From Burning Daylight by Jack London
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