gold mine
nounDefinition of gold mine
: a rich source of something desired
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Synonyms for gold mine
Synonyms
argosy, cornucopia, mine, mother lode, treasure trove, wellspring
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Examples of gold mine in a Sentence
The library is a gold mine of information.
the estate sale promises to be a gold mine for antique dealers
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From the algorithm’s point of view, flat earth is a gold mine. — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, "Welcome to the age of the regreditorial.," 26 July 2019 Memories from the Russian Gulag Varlam Shalamov, a counter-revolutionary writer, spent fifteen years in the horrific Russian Gulag system, six of them enslaved in one of the coldest, harshest gold mines known to exist. — Ellen Mcgirt, Fortune, "A Setback In Flint: RaceAhead," 14 June 2019 The small village of Gondo, high in the Alps on the Simplon Pass between Switzerland and Italy, traces its origins to the 17th-century gold mines of Kaspar Stockalper. — Michael Hardy, WIRED, "The Cryptocurrency Rush Transforming Old Swiss Gold Mines," 9 July 2019 The seemingly endless real footage of politicians speaking on YouTube, including US presidential candidates, is a gold mine for anyone considering using this type of AI for election meddling. — Rachel Metz, CNN, "The fight to stay ahead of deepfake videos before the 2020 US election," 12 June 2019 The experiment in the gold mines of South Dakota is called LUX-ZEPLIN, or LZ for short. — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, "Physicists Are Building a Dark Matter Experiment in an Abandoned Gold Mine," 9 Mar. 2017 Both the waters of the gold mine and the seafloor sediment off Catalina are mineral-rich, oxygen-poor environments home to a strange class of microbe — the kind that eat metals to get electrons. — Quanta Magazine, "How to Grow Metal-Eating Microbes," 21 June 2016 In the film, three bandits try to force Cooper to hand over the map to a gold mine. — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, "Artur Brauner, Holocaust Survivor and German Film Producer, Dies at 100," 7 July 2019 In the last decade, mainstream publishers and studios have found a figurative gold mine in audio fiction. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "The US Army has released its first audiobooks," 5 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gold mine.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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