pyramid
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Will they be in the Premier League next season or will they be expelled and will there need to be a quite significant rejigging of the pyramid to accommodate them somewhere else?
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 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
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
“Telkhines, that’s your cue! I wave my hands, and you leap energetically in your tank, do a synchronized double spin, and land in pyramid formation. We practiced this!”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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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
Visiting international fans have rhapsodized about our hospitality and gushed over culinary miracles like ranch dressing and Philly cheesesteak while trekking to Costco like it is our version of the pyramids.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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
“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2026
Or they build pyramids and other things for our people.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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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
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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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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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In 1930-33, Odlum, with cash in hand, picked up control of enormous pools of capital by paying their hard-hit sponsors a few cents on their lately pyramided dollars.
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
Yet the count works day & night pyramiding his holdings ever higher.
From Time Magazine Archive
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They were protesting the bureau's inefficiency and its indifference to the pyramiding problems faced by Indians, especially in the cities.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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 Mel Varga
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