How to Use gold rush in a Sentence

gold rush

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  • For Fitzhugh, the gold rush wasn’t the stuff of Jack London.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 24 Apr. 2021
  • In the first decade of the 1900s, Alaska had its very own gold rush.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2024
  • In 1860, Ford learned of a new gold rush—this one in Colorado.
    — Alex Knapp, Forbes, 8 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
  • And now the streaming gold rush—the era that made Dickinson—is over.
    — Daniel Bessner, Harper's Magazine, 21 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • Overnight the gold rush that had sustained the searchers was over, and many were left feeling a bit cheated.
    — CBS News, 22 May 2021
  • For Democrats, that gold rush of cash could not come at a more important time.
    — Maeve Reston, Washington Post, 22 July 2024
  • The rise is also something of a gold rush, says McQuirter.
    — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 13 Feb. 2020
  • Montana is full of ghost towns that date back to the gold rush, but one is very much alive: Virginia City.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Apr. 2021
  • 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
  • Like any gold rush, EVs will likely have its winners and losers.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
  • By the time Huie and his cousins arrived in California, the gold rush there was over.
    — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Nakia Williamson said that after losing their land to the gold rush of the 1800s, the Nimiipu have given enough and do not want to give up the mine.
    — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2021
  • Her mother got the starter from her mother, whose husband arrived in the Yukon during the Klondike gold rush of the 1890s.
    — Henry Fountain, New York Times, 7 May 2020
  • Shell is not the only company set to join the EV charger gold rush.
    — Jeremy Lott, Washington Examiner, 18 Feb. 2021
  • But in sports, the streaming gold rush has largely done the opposite.
    — Alex Kirshner, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2022
  • This hawkish legal strategy indicates that a new phase of the GLP-1 gold rush has begun—a crackdown against any entity selling non-name-brand medications.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024
  • As companies rush headlong into the AI gold rush, many are finding that their proof-of-concept demos are colliding hard with the realities of practical implementation.
    — Umesh Sachdev, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2024

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