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

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

He is facing upriver, an inveterate white-water miner, basking for one more moment in the glow of the mother lode.

From Washington Post • Oct. 7, 2022

In addition to an array of interviews with celebrities, art curators, former associates and others, Rossi had access to a mother lode of resources from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the artist’s hometown.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 16, 2022

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