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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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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

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

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

The nation's bill for foreign oil pyramided from $3.9 billion in 1972* to $24 billion last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sister No. 1 is a widow who has just moved, and cartons of appliances are pyramided on the floor.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

With the nation's population rising at the rate of 2,600,000 a year, the needs are pyramiding.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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