wellspring
Example Sentences
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The everyday tools of the kitchen can be connected to powerful memories and wellsprings of feeling.
Listening to Bessie Smith was a sort of baptism: He submerged himself in what he called the “wellspring” of his art.
From Los Angeles Times
He is tapping into a deep wellspring of public frustration at the rising cost of living, with wheat prices up 30 percent and sugar up 60 percent in the past year.
From New York Times
It is warm, flat and shallow as a backyard pool — making it more like a supersize petri dish than the wellspring of the Everglades.
From Seattle Times
Lincoln Laboratory, a wellspring of technological innovation funded by the Pentagon, to further his education in computer science.
From New York Times
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