Definition of cornucopianext
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as in repository
an abundant source even to the computer-addicted children, the old-fashioned toy chest was a cornucopia of delights

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as in horn
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container a cornucopia filled with fruits and vegetables in celebration of the harvest

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Recent Examples of cornucopia Author Sandra Mao provides a cornucopia of vegetables that will brighten up your garden and your salad plate. Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 30 Jan. 2026 Flamingo Island Flea Market Just off I-75 awaits a cornucopia of vintage decor, houseplants, pottery, and other knick-knacks. Carrie Honaker, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2026 Not spending too much time in it seems to help, which is very much possible given the cornucopia of amenities that developers are offering these days. Kim Velsey, Curbed, 17 Dec. 2025 Old toys could be harvested for arms and legs, while broken electronics were a cornucopia of wires, dials, and paneling. Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cornucopia
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Noun
  • The infections spanned JavaScript, TypeScript and Python repositories.
    Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2026
  • There’s also the Asiama gallery, a comprehensive repository of Lao history through its tribal textiles.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Seasonal Shopping Is Worth the Effort In-season produce is picked at peak ripeness, which means higher vitamin and mineral content, better flavor and lower prices driven by seasonal abundance.
    Allison Palmer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Both superpowers have understood that energy abundance is a strategic necessity.
    David Frykman, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
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  • In other words, horns and homicide, together again.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Quinlan is proud protesters have ignored MAGA supporters who have driven past, waving flags, honking horns and shouting insults during previous events.
    Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
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  • Brenda Shaughnessy is a poet who delves deeply into the imaginative wellspring of the multiverse for comfort and reckoning too.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Shriver’s many strange enthusiasms have provided her with a wellspring of ideas, which in the past have produced highly topical novels—about school massacres, obesity, religion, and, yes, the national debt.
    Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2026
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  • During the procedure, a catheter, or tiny flexible tube, is inserted into a blood vessel and snaked into the heart to view the coronary and/or pulmonary arteries up close.
    Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Pemberton went to Paris and to expert Baschet musician Thomas Bloch to record the ‘40s-era organ made of glass tubes of varying length, played with wet fingertips.
    Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 25 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Sure, there’s always some folks out there who leave reviews without actually making the recipe, but true reviews are a gold mine.
    Josh Miller, Southern Living, 14 Mar. 2026
  • The real gold mine would be if the government were to release the first-ever photo or video of a UAP obtained via satellite, said Harvard professor and astrophysicist Avi Loeb.
    Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 7 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Michael Bluth is exceptional because of the wealth his family used to enjoy, but also because of his seeming—and, to be fair, intermittently absent—levelheadedness despite the bubble in which the rest of his family still stubbornly, tenuously lives.
    Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Motives centers around Detective Izzy Morgan (Vasquez), a relentless investigator pulled into a dark and intricate case that exposes the hidden violence beneath wealth and privilege.
    Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 20 Mar. 2026
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  • The second annual Vogue Vintage Market is rapidly approaching, featuring a veritable treasure trove of designer finds sourced on eBay.
    Rosie Jarman, Vogue, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Feldman has accumulated a treasure trove of old pictures — funny and, in a bigger sense, heartbreaking — of innocent, pre-fame Kiedis, Flea and Slovak goofing off and hanging out.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026

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“Cornucopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornucopia. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.

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