mother lode

Definition of mother lode

1 : the principal vein or lode of a region

2 : a principal source or supply

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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

Recent Examples on the Web Diplo had a mother lode of releases this year, including an album with Major Lazer and his debut country LP Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Volume 1: Snake Oil. — Katie Bain, Billboard, "7 Things the 2021 Grammy Nominations Got Right in the Dance Categories - And 3 Things They Got Wrong," 24 Nov. 2020 Babies Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble showed up later to this chronologically incorrect world of dinosaurs, mastodons and a mother lode of geological puns. — Bill Keveney, USA TODAY, "Happy Yabba Dabba Doo! 6 fun things about 'The Flintstones' on its 60th anniversary," 30 Sep. 2020 Truly, America’s protean black musical mother lode has found expression in popular genres of its own invention—not string quartets, symphonies and operas. — Joseph Horowitz, WSJ, "A Symphony to Link Africa and America," 7 Feb. 2020 Pebble Partnership’s corporate parent, Northern Dynasty Minerals, originally envisioned 78 years of mining, which would recover a little more than half of the mother lode. — Los Angeles Times, "This Alaska mine could generate $1 billion a year. Is it worth the risk to salmon?," 23 Oct. 2019 The biennial’s emphasis on Chicago is all to the good, reversing the tendency of the first two exhibitions to treat the city as a backdrop rather than a mother lode that could be mined for comparisons, contrasts and connections with other cities. — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, "New Chicago Architecture Biennial opens and wants to upset the way you see the city. That’s why you should see it.," 19 Sep. 2019 The Real Deal: Could this be the Rise of Skywalker rumor mother lode? — Wired, "Rise of Skywalker," 9 Sep. 2019 But there may be other spots on the moon that could yield a mother lode of scientific data—as well as the resources needed to sustain human occupation of Earth’s celestial next door neighbor. — Leonard David, Scientific American, "Will Future Lunar Bases Be Underground?," 31 July 2019 The Austrian capital was (apart from the Churchill) the mother lode of our collection. — Zofia Smardz, Washington Post, "Souvenir matchbooks once were a hot item. Can they still rekindle travel memories?," 26 July 2019

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