lode
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The City and Borough of Juneau Assembly—the local version of a city council—saw a mother lode of opportunity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Two-thousand-five-hundred miles west of Dodger Stadium was a mother lode of Dodgers memorabilia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2023
“What a mess we’ve created for ourselves,” said Emily Talen, a professor of urbanism at the University of Chicago who has studied zoning, or “the mother lode of city rules.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
For most of the history of mining, the origin story of a mineral lode was beside the point.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 1, 2023
Through the glass windows of the exit doors, I could see the headmaster, Mr. Bonsai, wrestling with the lode, a crowd of teachers piling up behind him.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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