pyramid
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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
The next Watkins, Eze, Wharton or Semenyo may already be somewhere further down the pyramid.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
I’d run my fingers across the convex pyramid textures in the same way other people lay under a weighted blanket or ate sour candy, jolting my subconscious back into the here and now.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
In his final letter to investors, Robertson didn’t mince words, calling the craze “a Ponzi pyramid destined for collapse.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 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
That squeeze on the calendar would be felt all the way down the pyramids domestically and affect the structure of the game in every single country.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 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
Egypt’s pyramids were larger, but they were built centuries later.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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They have pyramided a single small butcher shop into a chain of 131 big stores, the seventh biggest food chain in the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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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Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor.
From Time Magazine Archive
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When he wasn't twanging out patter, he pyramided cigar boxes on his chin and twirled hats through the air as "Freddy James, the World's Worst Juggler."
From Time Magazine Archive
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The paint was stacked in neatly pyramided lots along the concrete floor.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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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
With the nation's population rising at the rate of 2,600,000 a year, the needs are pyramiding.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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He was now bulling the market by matching orders, pyramiding stock which he owned, using every device that was known to his astute brain.
From Constance Dunlap by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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