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as in repository
an abundant source even to the computer-addicted children, the old-fashioned toy chest was a cornucopia of delights

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as in horn
something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container a cornucopia filled with fruits and vegetables in celebration of the harvest

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Recent Examples of cornucopia The smell of cinnamon repulsed her, as did the sight of falling leaves, cornucopias, turkeys, cobwebs, ghosts, and that stupid cursive that had become the font of choice for selling pumpkin lattes and a vague notion of cozy well-being. Anelise Chen june 3, Literary Hub, 3 June 2025 The original justification for dropping HBO from HBO Max was to signal a something-for-everyone content cornucopia. Jennifer Maas, Variety, 14 May 2025 After the conflict, industry transformed these substances into a cornucopia of household goods. Mariah Blake, The Atlantic, 5 May 2025 Meanwhile, Americans have enjoyed a cornucopia of affordable merchandise from apparel to hardware which, fueled by pandemic stimulus payments and unleashed the phenomenon known as revenge spending. Greg Petro, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cornucopia
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Noun
  • Yucca Mountain in Nevada was later selected to house this repository.
    June 18, CBS News, 18 June 2025
  • In 2023, Toyota Motor Europe revealed a data exposure stemming from cloud credentials stored in a publicly accessible GitHub repository.
    Matthew Sweeney, Forbes.com, 17 June 2025
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  • Can the sport maneuver around a host of U.S. traffic — no top-tier American driver, an abundance of NASCAR competition and a European-race television schedule that’s more breakfast-time than primetime — to finally get out of the pack?
    Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
  • The calculations of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, which correctly predict the abundances of hydrogen and helium in the Universe, put strict constraints on how much light-emitting matter there can be, and that number simply isn’t large enough to accommodate all these disparate results.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 25 June 2025
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  • Equity bears are growling, and bulls are sharpening their horns.
    Jeff Kilburg, CNBC, 17 June 2025
  • In Western art, a man on a horse is a classic format representing a hero, but here Davis sits a young Black man astride a mythic unicorn — notably white — its buttery beige horn shining amid the painting’s otherwise neutral palette.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025
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  • The next decade, he was brought in as a leader in building the Opéra Bastille, which became a wellspring of disaster.
    Joshua Barone, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • What happens when that wellspring of global talent is threatened?
    Dr. Shaheena Janjuha-Jivraj, Forbes.com, 26 May 2025
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  • Its off-size pre-rolls come in stylish green or white tins and tubes, while its charitable arm, the Bailey Legacy Fund, supports local animal rescues.
    Javier Hasse, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
  • Serum tubes with blood samples from patients are processed in the central medical laboratory of the St. Georg Clinic in Leipzig.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 June 2025
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  • After a streak of less than $100 million+ weekends at the box office, the film industry turns its lonely eyes to Warner Bros, which has a potential gold mine in Legendary‘s A Minecraft Movie with an outlook of $140M worldwide this weekend in its opening frame.
    Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2025
  • The clearance sections at Pottery Barn, Crate & Barrel, and West Elm are gold mines for scoring high-quality kitchenware, furniture, bedding, and decor at deep discounts.
    Toni Sutton, People.com, 10 June 2025
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  • There’s still an untold wealth of information to learn from the Milky Way’s neighbor, possibly even the means to finally understand the dark matter first detected by Rubin.
    Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 26 June 2025
  • Over the past year, Citi’s five businesses are tracking improved profitability, Poonawala said, adding that wealth and banking have acquired a sharper focus under new leadership.
    Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 26 June 2025
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  • Contained within this analog treasure trove was a personality, a voice, a way of looking at the world—in short, a life.
    Eliza Berman, Time, 26 June 2025
  • For 16 years, the book quietly traveled in Sofia’s backpack, a secret project that blossomed into a treasure trove of encouragement and heartfelt memories.
    Ashley Vega, People.com, 18 June 2025

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“Cornucopia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornucopia. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.

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