How to Use lode in a Sentence
lode
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Even if climate change didn’t exist, the lode would be of great importance.
—Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 3 May 2021
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Those in search of transformative music have just hit the mother lode.
—Scott Thill, WIRED, 6 May 2008
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The lode is more than a mile underground, and the area is prone to flooding, making the project challenging.
—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 4 May 2026
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The issue circles back to the gigantic investment needed to mine that rich lode when the top names in tech are digging as well.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 29 May 2026
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Every bite strikes a lode of mole poblano, salsa verde or salsa roja, marbling the beautifully tender dough, like meat.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 9 Dec. 2016
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And yet the stooges in movies like Zoolander come in handy as providers of an alternative mother lode of teachable moments.
—Jeff Gordinier, Esquire, 1 June 2017
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In the 1860s, gold miners moved into the Paradise Valley to work the lodes.
—Jim Robbins, WSJ, 19 July 2017
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Lodes credited his players for adjusting to him and each other, with several new players in from North.
—Steve Millar, Daily Southtown, 14 May 2017
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They were written at the same desk where O’Connor wrote her fiction and are found in the same lode of correspondence that has brought about the rise in her stature.
—Paul Elie, The New Yorker, 15 June 2020
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That’s when Janice Regan and her grandson decided to beachcomb the sandy island, finding a mother lode of pristine shells.
—Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
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Yet no embarrassing revelations from that lode have emerged — so far — nor has Russian unleashed its propaganda networks and bots to spread fake news.
—Trudy Rubin, Philly.com, 14 Sep. 2017
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The lode, which was named after Henry Comstock, was the first major discovery of silver in the United States.
—Jonah Raskin, SFChronicle.com, 25 June 2018
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Developers have long been beckoned by a lode of gold, copper, rhenium and other minerals near southwestern Alaska’s Bristol Bay.
—Jennifer A Dlouhy, Bloomberg.com, 29 Oct. 2020
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But that mineral lode has been out of reach largely because of the project’s location in southwestern Alaska, in an area that drains into Bristol Bay, home to the world’s most productive wild salmon fishery.
—Bloomberg, latimes.com, 26 June 2019
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Perhaps the most important statement in the entire, roughly 400 page document comes on page 53, where SpaceX details the immense expense and long timeline needed to mine the super-rich AI lode.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 23 May 2026
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Investigators unknowingly hit the moon mother lode in 2003 while searching the garage of a man later convicted of stealing and selling museum artifacts, including some that were on loan from NASA.
—Bloomberg.com, 20 July 2017
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