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gold mine

NOUN
rich source
Synonyms
WEAK
Eldorado Golconda bonanza cash cow golden goose goose that laid the golden egg gravy train license to print money mother lode rich lode source of supply vein very profitable venture

Example Sentences

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He executed wonderfully on the possibilities of technology and the commercial environment, even so stumbling into a gold mine to trump all gold mines, the iPhone.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Twenty-five workers were inside the gold mine when the tailings dam - a structure which holds mining waste - burst on 25 March.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

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

The thing Eisman had found was indeed a gold mine, but it wasn’t true that no one knew about it.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis