pyramid
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The line is like Nolan nudging his audience to say, check this out: a human pyramid of Greek commandos packed into a dark hollow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
They barely finish before other mids start hoisting each other into a crude human pyramid.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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
Emiliano Zapata’s face floats next to an Aztec pyramid, and a pachuco hangs out with a female Brown Beret.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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
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
“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
Picturesque wind instruments suddenly burst forth as if a flock of birds were flying over the pyramids.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
Flush with wealth, Tiwanaku city swelled into a marvel of terraced pyramids and grand monuments.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
This epidemic pyramided public reaction to a far higher point than usual.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Early-form favorites among the bars are the English pub, the Bavarian beer garden, Trinidad-Tobago's lively pavilion where steel bands and limbo dancers perform all day, and Ontario's pyramided pavilion.
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
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
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
They were protesting the bureau's inefficiency and its indifference to the pyramiding problems faced by Indians, especially in the cities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"Ah, you Americans!" laughed M. Ferraud, pyramiding his fingers.
From A Splendid Hazard by MacGrath, Harold
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