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something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
all the gold in the world won't buy happiness
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Recent Examples of gold
Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2025
The Trump White House has overhauled the Oval Office with striking new gold trimming on portrait frames and tables.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Kelly Evans, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Historically, the price of gold rallies as confidence falters (think: the 1970s inflation crisis, the Great Recession, and the pandemic panic).
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Both her documentary and Farhadi’s narrative feature were inspired by a real-life incident in 2011 in which a man in Iran on furlough from a debtors’ prison found a bag of gold coins and returned them to their owner rather than keeping them for himself.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2025
The Trump White House has overhauled the Oval Office with striking new gold trimming on portrait frames and tables.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
So yes, score one for the gold bugs and the crypto enthusiasts.
—Kelly Evans, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Historically, the price of gold rallies as confidence falters (think: the 1970s inflation crisis, the Great Recession, and the pandemic panic).
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gold
Noun
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If no one wins the jackpot, the cash prize will continue to tick up.—
Julia Gomez,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2025
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One afternoon, Coogler stopped by a Bank of America to make a sizable cash withdrawal from his account to cover some family expenses.—
Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The 30-year gilt yield was 25 basis points higher at 5.597% at 5 p.m. London time, at its highest level since 1998, after rising as much as 30 basis points earlier in the session.—
Chloe Taylor,Jenni Reid,Sawdah Bhaimiya,Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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Wendy Labrum Interiors An antique marble fireplace and gilt mirror ground the formal living room in the designer Wendy Labrum’s own Chicago home.—
Dan Howarth,
Architectural Digest,
17 Mar. 2025
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Customers, who had access to more than 20 crypto coins at the time, were either shunted to Blockchain.com or liquidated their holdings.—
Hugh Son,
CNBC,
29 Apr. 2025
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But this was still just the flip of a coin, essentially.—
Ruthie Ackerman,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Super fine golden pearls give a gorgeous gleam while coconut, avocado and argan oils, plus squalane and vitamin E nourish skin and add radiance.—
Celia Shatzman,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Mornings stretch slowly over strong coffee and views of the turquoise Aegean and afternoons are for swimming at golden beaches, exploring stone pathways punctuated by hot pink cascades of bougainvillea, or doing nothing at all.—
Bailey Berg,
Architectural Digest,
29 Apr. 2025
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Medora Lee is a money, markets, and personal finance reporter at USA TODAY.—
Medora Lee,
USA Today,
3 May 2025
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Saban told Trump the influx of money has hurt college sports.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
2 May 2025
Adjective
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As rain turned from mist to torrent, the fashionista crowd swarmed up the marble steps of the Petit Palais, pressing together under a narrow, gilded awning like ants escaping a flood.—
Victoria Bousis,
Rolling Stone,
21 Apr. 2025
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By Biz Carson | Bloomberg In San Francisco’s financial district, the One Montgomery building evokes the opulence of America’s turn of the 20th century gilded age.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2025
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The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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Their faces have appeared on currency, Streets bear their names, children learn about them in school.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Gold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gold. Accessed 7 May. 2025.
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