pyramid
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That year he was named architect for the Grand Louvre project in Paris, which also yielded a large glass pyramid.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026
They barely finish before other mids start hoisting each other into a crude human pyramid.
From Slate ● Jun. 24, 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
Broader wellness trends, the new food pyramid and social-media trends like so-called “protein-maxxing” have created more demand for protein.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026
The broad bottom of each pyramid spread the load and reduced settlement; the narrow top supported load-bearing columns.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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
“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
The pre-Hispanic pyramids and ruins at Teotihuacán are a Unesco World Heritage Site and among the most popular tourist attractions in the country.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
Accounts of African empires and the miracles of the Egyptian slaves who had erected pyramids.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
The howls of local citizens evicted from apartments to make room for visitors have been loud and anguished, and rents have pyramided.
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
Well, perhaps he had been the richest man in Germany, for a time, while the mark was falling, and he was building great pyramided super-trusts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
Yet the count works day & night pyramiding his holdings ever higher.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It was luck," he recalled, surveying his pyramiding debts, which chased right after his skyrocketing wealth.
From Time Magazine Archive
We seem, here, to have an endless, and vicious, circle in value causation, the value mounting indefinitely, building upon itself, a sort of "pyramiding" process.
From The Value of Money by Anderson, Benjamin M.
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