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pyramid

[pir-uh-mid] / ˈpɪr ə mɪd /


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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

They barely finish before other mids start hoisting each other into a crude human pyramid.

From Slate Jun. 24, 2026

When she stepped from behind the bright yellow curtain, which also hid a secret office, she looked as if she’d just walked out of a pyramid in the desert.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

Spend enough years standing behind pyramids of hamburgers, posing at fry stations and inserting yourself into the iconography of American restaurant chains, and eventually the props begin to accrue meanings of their own.

From Salon Aug. 12, 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

“Fantasy” resulted from his meditations within the pyramids of Giza and his claimed communications with aliens.

From Salon Jun. 7, 2026

The Teotihuacán is an ancient city, home to massive pyramids, and predates the Aztecs.

From BBC Apr. 20, 2026

A great wind came up then, a wind that filled their sails and swept them north and east and north again, toward Meereen and its pyramids of many-colored bricks.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Gradually his original $20,000 investment pyramided into Tecon Corp., a general construction company that now has assets of $10 million.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

His funeral took place almost within sight of the house where he was born and of the daily on which he pyramided an empire.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

To avoid pyramiding, each new permanent project has been financed independently.

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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