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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

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

The solution comes to Cartman in a dream, courtesy of Aunt Jemima: the food pyramid is upside down.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 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

At the very top of the pyramid is a certain tricky monkey— confused and panicked.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

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

After surveying his pyramids of cans, arrayed spices and stacks of noodle soup, they issued him a 2,500-euro fine, equivalent to around $2,866.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026

The Somers IBM plant sits on a hilltop, ringed by woods, its pyramids visible from nearby Interstate 684.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

And all the temples, towers, palaces, pyramids, and bridges cast long, disastrous- looking shadows in the light of that withered sun.

From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Well, perhaps he had been the richest man in Germany, for a time, while the mark was falling, and he was building great pyramided super-trusts.

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

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

At the hatch edge, a pyramiding mass of cats paused a moment.

From Feline Red by Robert Sampson


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