philosophers' stone
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Their tweeted strategy was Google as philosopher’s stone, turning carelessly written sentences into dot-com gold.
From Slate • May 17, 2022
The unsuccessful glassblower and alchemist Hennig Brandt was trying to find the philosopher’s stone, a mythical substance that could turn base metals into gold.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 27, 2019
But for the denizens of Silicon Beach, aircraft represent the ultimate hack — a philosopher’s stone that makes rest out of work.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 21, 2019
Go by “data,” and there might never have been a novel about a schoolboy and a philosopher’s stone.
From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2019
José Arcadio Buendía received his errant son with joy and initiated him in the search for the philosopher's stone, which he had finally undertaken.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
