gold rush
noun
1
: a rush to newly discovered goldfields in pursuit of riches
2
: the headlong pursuit of sudden wealth in a new or lucrative field
Examples of gold rush in a Sentence
the California gold rush of 1849
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Accentuating the absurdity of the gold rush, one of the screenwriters of Mezrich’s project, Lauren Schuker Blum, was competing with her husband, the producer Jason Blum, who was racing to get HBO’s project developed.
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Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
The chatbot became the fastest-growing app ever, capturing 100 million users in two months and kick-starting the AI gold rush in Silicon Valley.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 1 Nov. 2024
The generative AI boom sparked a gold rush for data—and a subsequent data-protection rush (for most news websites, anyway) in which publishers sought to block AI crawlers and prevent their work from becoming training data without consent.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
Then there came the other gold rush — slower, more modest, but with a steady yield that literally could be plucked from trees: the California orange.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
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Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
The chatbot became the fastest-growing app ever, capturing 100 million users in two months and kick-starting the AI gold rush in Silicon Valley.
—Adam Clark Estes, Vox, 1 Nov. 2024
The generative AI boom sparked a gold rush for data—and a subsequent data-protection rush (for most news websites, anyway) in which publishers sought to block AI crawlers and prevent their work from becoming training data without consent.
—Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Oct. 2024
Then there came the other gold rush — slower, more modest, but with a steady yield that literally could be plucked from trees: the California orange.
—Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2024
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“Gold rush.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gold%20rush. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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