mother lode
Example Sentences
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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
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
“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
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
