gold mine
Example Sentences
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Are the Dodgers baseball’s version of a gold mine?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026
It was in 1901 that British businessman William Knox D’Arcy, flush with cash from developing an Australian gold mine, heard about a fortune to be made in Iranian oil.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
Thomas Kaplan is pushing ahead on what he’s dubbed America’s gold mine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Greenlandic officials quietly concede that, in the short term at least, anyone running this island is more likely to find themselves staring down a money pit rather than a gold mine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
“All right, I’m going to get dinner started. Will you two do me a favor and run over to the gold mine and fire Bob?”
From "Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus" by Dusti Bowling
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