gold rush
nounDefinition of gold rush
1
: a rush to newly discovered goldfields in pursuit of riches
2
: the headlong pursuit of sudden wealth in a new or lucrative field
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Other Words from gold rush
gold rusher
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Examples of gold rush in a Sentence
the California gold rush of 1849
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Indeed a gold rush that many called a trick first put Colorado on the map. — Tom Noel, The Know, "16 strange, spooky and (mostly) true Colorado stories to tell around a campfire," 24 Aug. 2019 But not all immigrants at the time were from Europe—a large number of Chinese people came to the U.S. between 1849 and 1882 when the California gold rush took off, according to the Library of Congress. — Mahita Gajanan, Time, "Trump Immigration Head Ken Cuccinelli: Statue of Liberty Poem About People 'Coming From Europe'," 14 Aug. 2019 This prompted something akin to the Klondike gold rush that happened 150 years later. — William L. Iggiagruk Hensley, Quartz, "Long before Trump’s Greenland offer, the US bought a chunk of the Arctic for a bargain," 19 Aug. 2019 Robert McDonald was on Birch Creek near Central in 1863 and found gold on a tributary of that creek 35 years before the Klondike gold rush. — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, "Alaska’s early explorers were tough buzzards when it came to traveling and camping," 6 Aug. 2019 For a while, as the tale takes Wilson and Addison from their parents’ California home to the Alaska gold rush, this works well. — New York Times, "Review: Sondheim’s Bumpy ‘Road Show,’ Now at the End of the Line," 25 July 2019 At the southern edge of the Sahara, a West African gold rush is under way. — Robert Draper, National Geographic, "Surrounded by chaos, Niger is a nation on the edge," 17 June 2019 Meanwhile, Silicon Valley is driving a different sort of gold rush around anti-aging and longevity (Quartz membership exclusive). — Sangeeta Singh-kurtz, Quartzy, "FaceApp only shows the older version of ourselves we want to see," 19 July 2019 Much of it was on the west coast with the gold rush and the development of California. — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, "Indian immigrants have it bad in Donald Trump’s America. But the early 1900s were worse," 16 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'gold rush.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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