pyramid
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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
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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
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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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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
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Meanwhile Billie Jean and Husband-Partner Larry have pyramided her skill and name into a tidy little conglomerate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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
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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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At the hatch edge, a pyramiding mass of cats paused a moment.
From Feline Red by Robert Sampson
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