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pyramid

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Recent Examples of pyramid
Noun
Last winter, George called Sanders again while pursuing the job at Bowling Green, which is not a historically Black college and plays one level higher than Tennessee State on college football’s pyramid, to ask about how Sanders made the transition from Jackson State to Colorado. Andrew Greif, NBC news, 28 Aug. 2025 At the top of the Auxolith’s pyramid is decorated CEO Michelle Fuller. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Aug. 2025 The big glass pyramid amused Mona. Literary Hub, 27 Aug. 2025 In the late Eighties, systems theorists and information scientists developed something called the DIKW pyramid, the data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy. Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for pyramid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pyramid
Noun
  • My workaround has been putting one pump of cream and one pump of serum together in my palm and combining them, then spreading the mixture in a thin layer over my face every morning.
    Jessica Hartshorn, Flow Space, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Understanding that a hot exo-atmosphere would be large and inflated in size, and that graphite would absorb practically all of the starlight impacting that atmosphere if there were a high-altitude layer of it, represents a fascinating scenario for explaining the features of these planets.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Despite so much being stacked against them, the Angels had a shot to win before dropping a 2-1 decision to the Seattle Mariners.
    Jeff Fletcher, Oc Register, 13 Sep. 2025
  • And over the past nine months, a team of judges has been measuring it, pinpointing the exact location of the wave’s base, then stacking images of Slebir’s crouched pose on top of each other like a totem pole up the face of the wave.
    Julia Prodis Sulek, Mercury News, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Mushi takes his blanket and tucks himself into bed.
    Rachael O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Things only get worse when, after the guests go to bed, a tipsy Solène does cheerleading stunts with Damo by the Jacuzzi instead of working.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Interrupting the programming that tens of millions of Americans actively consume each weekend is always going to be a tough sell, but when the disruptive elements themselves start to become overly familiar, the negative implications begin to pile up.
    Anthony Crupi, Sportico.com, 12 Sep. 2025
  • His recent tax cuts add to the unsustainable public debt the US is piling up, and to investor doubts our financial health over time.
    Harry Holzer, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Wilderness Trail takes their time with everything, from using sweet mash (instead of the usual sour mash) to aging their whiskey in lower warehouse ricks for better flavor development.
    Emily Price, Forbes.com, 9 June 2025
Verb
  • Excavating wetlands, as various studies have suggested, would yield soil that could be mounded into sound-blocking berms, as at Brooklyn Bridge Park; lookouts, as on Governors Island; and undulating grasslands like those at Freshkills.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Pruning 'Kaleidoscope' Abelia 'Kaleidoscope' Abelia naturally develops a low mounding crown that requires little pruning to maintain.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The arrest marked Luchin's second brush with bank robbery charges.
    Doc Louallen, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The bank raised its price target to $175 from $155, signaling 11% upside from Friday’s close.
    Lisa Kailai Han, CNBC, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Pyramid.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pyramid. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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