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cornucopias

noun

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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Recent Examples of cornucopias The Sagrada Familia fuses the universal language of nature — trees, birds, reptiles, cornucopias of fruit — with scenes from Christ's life. — ABC News, 9 June 2026 Come summer, colorful cornucopias of tomatoes, okra, squash, peppers, and more, are ripe for the picking. — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 22 May 2026
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  1. repositories
  2. horns
  3. gold mines
  4. tubes
  5. mines
Noun
  • Hospitals are major repositories of addictive substances that can also be crucial medical treatments.
    — Alexandra Byrne, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026
  • This may mean that information on the capabilities and limitations of updates are delivered to all users via YouTube–like tutorials and new, highly effective AI prompts are shared and stored via GitHub-like knowledge repositories.
    — Emelia S. Probasco, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of repositories
Noun
  • Take cues from Celine and Dries Van Noten and look for long pendants featuring a constellation of medallions, letters, shells, horns, the like.
    — Andrea Zendejas, Vogue, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Outside the airport, the streets are busy, a cacophony of honking horns and motorbikes buzzing between cars, buses, and tuk-tuks as people travel around the Nepalese capital.
    — Nicola Chilton, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of horns
Noun
  • The ministry described its copper resources as equivalent to several large copper mines and its gold resources as exceeding those of 10 large gold mines.
    — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 1 Sep. 2026
  • More than 900,000 people have been displaced, while the region’s gold mines draw workers from a wide area.
    — The Week UK, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of gold mines
Noun
  • But many of us may be confused about how to set up and use those stretchy tubes and straps.
    — Gretchen Reynolds, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2026
  • Red neon tubes illuminated art works ranging from the disturbing (a black-and-white photograph of a person stuffing sausages in their mouth) to the mundane (a pastoral painting of a snowshoe-wearing rifleman).
    — Rachel Syme, New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2026
Definition of tubes
Noun
  • There are also military capabilities there, including air defenses and mines buried underground.
    — Gabrielle Khoriaty, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of mines

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