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gold mine

noun

Definition of gold minenext
as in treasure trove
an abundant source the estate sale promises to be a gold mine for antique dealers

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Recent Examples of gold mine The governor said armed groups could be using the fires to distract law enforcement from a strategic area where criminal groups profit from gold mines. — ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026 More than 100 people are dead and many remain buried after an artisanal gold mine collapses in western Central African Republic, as rescuers with limited equipment recover bodies by hand. — Jean Fernand Koena, Los Angeles Times, 20 Aug. 2026 In March, Lloyd would be joining a scientific expedition into a gold mine in South Africa to learn if this subsurface life might also be breathing oxygen. — James Dinneen, New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2026 Hollywood sees Reddit and YouTube as gold mines, Shirley Li writes. — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 13 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for gold mine
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gold mine
  1. treasure trove
  2. repository
  3. mother lode
  4. mine
Noun
  • The 2026 index will be a treasure trove of statistics on profits, revenues and growth—with many lessons from the successes of those listed.
    — Kamal Ahmed, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2026
  • All of Roman’s data will be made publicly available as soon as it is processed on Earth, providing a treasure trove for scientists to mine for answers to a multitude of cosmic queries.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of treasure trove
Noun
  • In late July, open-source AI repository Hugging Face suffered a breach that apparently came from an autonomous AI program.
    — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026
  • OpenAI officials learned of the incident weeks ago but kept it under wraps as executives grappled with the fallout from the July breach of the open source repository Hugging Face, the people said.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of repository
Noun
  • The hustling spirit of the gold rush lives on today in the prospecting influencers who toil in the content mines of the Internet, hoping to hit the viral mother lode.
    — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Beyond mother lodes of oil or natural gas, ready cash can also be generated with diamond or gold mines, precious metals, and rare minerals.
    — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
Definition of mother lode
Noun
  • None of our cases, not mine, not anyone else's, have ever failed in court.
    — Robert McGreevy, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
  • There are also military capabilities there, including air defenses and mines buried underground.
    — Gabrielle Khoriaty, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026
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