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Examples of mother lode in a Sentence
the university has long been a mother lode of athletic talent, with many alumni joining the rarefied ranks of the professionals
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But back onboard The Dare, there’s no sign its crew will be stopping the search for the mother lode anytime soon.
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Jay O'Brien, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
After all, joining the gold rush of famous figures to endorse, purchase or establish liquor companies since George Clooney turned Casamigos into a $1-billion mother lode in 2017 isn’t exactly a parable of rugged individualism or self-reliance.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
Two-thousand-five-hundred miles west of Dodger Stadium was a mother lode of Dodgers memorabilia.
—Lewis Abraham Leader, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
This is the mother lode of Egyptian antiquities, the country’s ceremonial capital for millennia.
—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
The mother lode of winter storms has sent water blasting through rock crevices and rivers in the Sierra Nevada, leading to more glittering discoveries by prospectors.
—Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
The notion that there’s a mother lode beneath the California peak, which is about 100 miles northeast of Barstow, was popularized in the 1930s by a miner who claimed to have seen it during a daring, four-day voyage.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
But for free stuff, Nextdoor is the mother lode.
—Bahar Ostadan, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020
Demolition squads of scholars have stencil-brushed the casing and every wire of the corpus; warning tape encircles the mother lode of fifty books, which are still capable of sending readers sky-high.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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Jay O'Brien, ABC News, 11 Nov. 2023
After all, joining the gold rush of famous figures to endorse, purchase or establish liquor companies since George Clooney turned Casamigos into a $1-billion mother lode in 2017 isn’t exactly a parable of rugged individualism or self-reliance.
—Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2023
Two-thousand-five-hundred miles west of Dodger Stadium was a mother lode of Dodgers memorabilia.
—Lewis Abraham Leader, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
This is the mother lode of Egyptian antiquities, the country’s ceremonial capital for millennia.
—Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
The mother lode of winter storms has sent water blasting through rock crevices and rivers in the Sierra Nevada, leading to more glittering discoveries by prospectors.
—Thomas Fuller Jim Wilson, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023
The notion that there’s a mother lode beneath the California peak, which is about 100 miles northeast of Barstow, was popularized in the 1930s by a miner who claimed to have seen it during a daring, four-day voyage.
—Daniel Miller, Los Angeles Times, 13 Apr. 2023
But for free stuff, Nextdoor is the mother lode.
—Bahar Ostadan, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2020
Demolition squads of scholars have stencil-brushed the casing and every wire of the corpus; warning tape encircles the mother lode of fifty books, which are still capable of sending readers sky-high.
—Thomas Meaney, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2023
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First Known Use
1863, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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mother lode
noun
: the main vein or deposit of an ore (as gold) in a region
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