gold rush
noun
1
: a rush to newly discovered goldfields in pursuit of riches
2
: the headlong pursuit of sudden wealth in a new or lucrative field
Examples of gold rush in a Sentence
the California gold rush of 1849
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Move on to Nevada City for another night in a gold rush town, this one with a world-class restaurant.
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Along the route, Rocky Mountaineer guides imbued the landscape with an interpretive history of the region’s gold rush and 19th-century Canadian Pacific Railway landmarks, as well as an understanding of Indigenous culture in the two provinces.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
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Matt Emma, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Feed it to infrastructure providers like NVIDIA (who, by the way, are selling pickaxes in the modern-day AI gold rush).
—Kjartan Rist, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Move on to Nevada City for another night in a gold rush town, this one with a world-class restaurant.
—Jenny Peters, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
Along the route, Rocky Mountaineer guides imbued the landscape with an interpretive history of the region’s gold rush and 19th-century Canadian Pacific Railway landmarks, as well as an understanding of Indigenous culture in the two provinces.
—The Editors, Outside, 31 Aug. 2025
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“Gold rush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gold%20rush. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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