pyramid
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They barely finish before other mids start hoisting each other into a crude human pyramid.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026
Soccer pyramid will only be as strong as the grassroots base supporting it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 2026
De la Espriella also defended David Murcia, convicted of running a pyramid scheme that impoverished families across southern Colombia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
The new dietary guidelines encourage people to consume red meat regularly, and illustrations of steak and ground beef sit prominently at the top of the food pyramid.
From MarketWatch ● May 19, 2026
That pyramid book had made everything sound true, but it was hard to imagine pyramids being real.
From "Orphan Island" by Laurel Snyder
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
“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
The bout, which will take place at the foot of the pyramids of Giza, is widely viewed as a major mismatch - with critics questioning why a world title is at stake.
From BBC ● May 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
“How many pyramids has he visited?” asked Dany.
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
This epidemic pyramided public reaction to a far higher point than usual.*
From Time Magazine Archive
Up to this year the Birthday Balls have been run by old Henry L. Doherty, president of Cities Service Co., one of the most pyramided holding companies ever devised.
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
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
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
But most businessmen blamed the present crazily unbalanced system of controls for the pyramiding secondary shortages that made the overall shortages worse by cutting off what supplies of materials there were.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Something was about to happen ... to him it was unmistakable, in the very atmosphere, sharpened and heightened by the four walls—a pervading sense of wrongness and a pyramiding tension.
From We're Friends, Now by Varga, Mel
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