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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

She had a blast and proudly reports that her team built the tallest pyramid, with her on top.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 23, 2026

And I liked to walk around the miniature pyramid like mounds of fresh earth dug out by the moles.

From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat

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

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

The Somers IBM plant sits on a hilltop, ringed by woods, its pyramids visible from nearby Interstate 684.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 7, 2026

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

From Salon Jun. 7, 2026

I'd seen hundreds of photos of these ancient stepped pyramids, but how could there be one in Central Park without anyone having noticed?

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

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

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

He was particularly afraid of its effect on raw material and farm prices, where a 10% increase in freight costs may be pyramided on its way to the consumer.

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

While that kind of pyramiding sounds ominous to some, Citicorp's Wriston contends that the chances of default by a major country are "zero."

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, he played the dangerous game of pyramiding, and no more perilous pyramiding than in a placer camp could be imagined.

From Burning Daylight by Jack London




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