cornucopias

plural of cornucopia
1
as in repositories
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 horns
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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Noun
  • Understanding this process is crucial for ensuring the safety of geological waste repositories.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Our current ideas about archives as these infinite repositories feel like a bit of a fiction.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • The outlet published photographs of first responders gathered around a scene on a Brazilian street, as well as an image of a white cow with horns and blood stained on its coat.
    Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) makes rabbits grow real horns made of keratin, mostly on their heads but sometimes on their faces.
    Popular Science Team, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Cathode ray tubes for Sarnoff and RCA to make televisions.
    Fortune Editors, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Mud tunnels, or shelter tubes, about the width of a straw, on the foundation, floor joists, and other parts of the house are signs of a colony.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
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  • Both sides have been fighting mercilessly over Sudanese gold mines.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The stock has fallen nearly 17% since last Wednesday, when the company announced a tragic mud rush earlier this month at one of its copper and gold mines in Indonesia; two workers have been found dead, and five remain missing.
    Jim Cramer, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • That money would be better spent, as military experts have long said, on asymmetric weapons like mines given that Taiwan’s ports and air bases would be the main targets for China’s initial air and missile campaign.
    Lyle Goldstein, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Once freed from slavery, Washington toiled in coal mines, worked as a janitor in exchange for formal education and became a great American orator and leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.
    Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
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“Cornucopias.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cornucopias. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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