pyramid
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This era includes the pyramid age of Giza and its mighty pharaohs.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026
The campaign has since gained the support of more than 80 clubs across Germany, from east to west and up and down the pyramid.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
A pyramid of gold-colored rods was situated over the bed.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
The solution comes to Cartman in a dream, courtesy of Aunt Jemima: the food pyramid is upside down.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the produce market he stacked a pyramid of oranges on the top and kept two more sackfuls in the cabinet underneath.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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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
It rules the Mississippi as definitively as the pyramids of Egypt rule the Nile, but speaking of a bright future rather than inexorable fate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
I picture myself at the top of the Eiffel Tower, climbing pyramids in Egypt, dancing in the streets in Spain, riding in a boat in Venice, and walking on the Great Wall of China.
From "I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter" by Erika L. Sánchez
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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Yet the count works day & night pyramiding his holdings ever higher.
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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