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
But for a noir of isolation and concealment, about how the past can often feel inescapable, these shadowy dugouts — Travis’ motel, a church and one character’s lonely lair — are an atmospheric mother lode.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2024
After all, he is a stoic prospector who, at the outset of the writer-director Jalmari Helander’s film, discovers a mother lode of gold.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Two-thousand-five-hundred miles west of Dodger Stadium was a mother lode of Dodgers memorabilia.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023
He took a peek into the bag—whoa—a fly mother lode!
From "As Brave As You" by Jason Reynolds
