mother lode
Example Sentences
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But it could be a mother lode for small and large local news outlets, providing $500 million a year to preserve and grow local newsrooms.
From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024
Two-thousand-five-hundred miles west of Dodger Stadium was a mother lode of Dodgers memorabilia.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
A 21-year-old National Guard airman, Jack Teixeira, allegedly used the online platform to post a mother lode of secret documents.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023
Then, one group member found the mother lode beneath a moss cushion at a tree’s base: a cluster of maroon pitchers strung on a white, chlorophyll-lacking shoot.
From New York Times • Jul. 9, 2022
Out in those fields, he used to talk about finding the mother lode, though: a mason jar of old money.
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
