How to Use gold rush in a Sentence

gold rush

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  • Andreessen Horowitz’s new fund comes amid a crypto gold rush.
    — Arielle Pardes, Wired, 24 June 2021
  • Overnight the gold rush that had sustained the searchers was over, and many were left feeling a bit cheated.
    — CBS News, 22 May 2021
  • That’s because the mad dash for ever faster shipping is a gold rush for warehouses.
    — Stephen McBride, Forbes, 7 May 2021
  • In 1860, Ford learned of a new gold rush—this one in Colorado.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 8 May 2021
  • The busy design hides several lessons on the harsh realities of the gold rush.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2021
  • In this modern gold rush, for now, Beijing holds a strong early advantage.
    — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 2 June 2021
  • Other gold rush board games released that year reflected that reality.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2021
  • The Portland had an unsavory history before the gold rush.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 9 May 2021
  • The book benefits from its distance from that gold rush, since Kennedy’s friends no longer need to jealously guard their recollections.
    — Allison Stewart, Washington Post, 14 July 2024
  • Einhorn sees electric vehicles (EVs) as a gold rush right now and noted that many investors are diving into the sector.
    — Jacob Wolinsky, Forbes, 21 May 2021
  • Levi Strauss got rich outfitting prospectors in California’s gold rush in the mid-1800s.
    — James T. Areddy, WSJ, 5 June 2021
  • The decline halted a growth streak dating to its founding in 1850 on the heels of a gold rush that prompted a flood of people to seek their fortune in the West.
    — CBS News, 7 May 2021
  • Today the old dredge stands as a fascinating relic of the past, maintained at an Oregon state park site to show tourists another face of the eastern Oregon gold rush.
    — oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • And in the haste to reach the market, the manufacturers of these gold rush games sometimes deemphasized geographical accuracy.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2021
  • The gold rush drew men and women from every state in the union — Black and white, free and slave.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2022
  • The Dixie Fire ravaged the gold rush town of Greenville on Aug. 4, about two weeks ago.
    — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2021
  • The news comes amidst a gold rush of video game adaptations.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 30 May 2024
  • Despite this gold rush, not a whole lot of cash has been splashed in hip-hop.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 13 Sep. 2022
  • Homestake’s origins were in the Black Hills gold rush of the 1870s.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2021
  • As with many across the country, the onset of the Klondike gold rush caused a severe case of gold fever.
    — David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
  • These acronyms are more than just a gold rush, says Matthew Leising, author of Out of the Ether.
    — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 11 Oct. 2021
  • In this sense, a gold rush is an apt metaphor for those heady days of the early social web.
    — Sam Venis, The New Republic, 30 July 2023
  • Across Sedona, rental prices were soaring—and a new kind of Airbnb gold rush was to blame.
    — Rosie Bradbury, WIRED, 7 Dec. 2022
  • The surest way to make money in AI is the same way as during any gold rush: just sell the shovels.
    — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Vishria knew that a gold rush was under way, and that someone had to build the picks and shovels.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2021
  • For Democrats, that gold rush of cash could not come at a more important time.
    — Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
  • The Middle Fork was reshaped by the gold rush of the 1800s, which was apparent throughout the trip.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 7 June 2024
  • Some even date back to the 1850s during Jacksonville’s origins as a gold rush town.
    — Frederick Tippett, Sunset Magazine, 10 Dec. 2021
  • The message: let others play with the clothing and pick axes in the AI gold rush, Salesforce has the gold.
    — Kylie Robison, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024
  • During a 1930s gold rush, prospectors further pushed the Warumungu off their native land.
    — Jordan Riefe, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2024

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