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something (as pieces of stamped metal or printed paper) customarily and legally used as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, or a means of payment
all the gold in the world won't buy happiness
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Recent Examples of gold
Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2025
The Trump White House has overhauled the Oval Office with striking new gold trimming on portrait frames and tables.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Kelly Evans, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Historically, the price of gold rallies as confidence falters (think: the 1970s inflation crisis, the Great Recession, and the pandemic panic).
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Both her documentary and Farhadi’s narrative feature were inspired by a real-life incident in 2011 in which a man in Iran on furlough from a debtors’ prison found a bag of gold coins and returned them to their owner rather than keeping them for himself.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2025
The Trump White House has overhauled the Oval Office with striking new gold trimming on portrait frames and tables.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 24 Apr. 2025
Adjective
So yes, score one for the gold bugs and the crypto enthusiasts.
—Kelly Evans, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2025
Historically, the price of gold rallies as confidence falters (think: the 1970s inflation crisis, the Great Recession, and the pandemic panic).
—Quartz Staff, Quartz, 22 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gold
Noun
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Money isn’t everything Harris raised a ton of cash.—
Amie Parnes,
The Hill,
14 Apr. 2025
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In turn, the government must borrow other money from the public to raise the cash needed.—
Doug Criscitello,
Forbes.com,
14 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The 30-year gilt yield was 25 basis points higher at 5.597% at 5 p.m. London time, at its highest level since 1998, after rising as much as 30 basis points earlier in the session.—
Chloe Taylor,Jenni Reid,Sawdah Bhaimiya,Sophie Kiderlin,
CNBC,
9 Apr. 2025
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Wendy Labrum Interiors An antique marble fireplace and gilt mirror ground the formal living room in the designer Wendy Labrum’s own Chicago home.—
Dan Howarth,
Architectural Digest,
17 Mar. 2025
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While Smoke heads to town to buy provisions for the club, Stack and Sammie hire another musician, the elderly Delta Slim (Delroy Lindo), who has been playing harmonica for coins at the train station.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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Some people like to put chocolates, toys, coins and other treats inside the ones that can be split in half for extra fun.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Bake in preheated oven until topping is golden brown and edges are bubbling, 20 to 30 minutes.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
17 Apr. 2025
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There's nothing quite like sipping rosé in its apple orchard during golden hour.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Youngkin in 2021 raised $2.2 million in contributions, but the millionaire investor bolstered his war chest with $5.5million of his own money, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.—
Savannah Kuchar,
USA Today,
21 Apr. 2025
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By juggling school and a job at a lice clinic, one young woman found a way to finance her education Comments Cailin Hawn has worked at a lice clinic for five years in an attempt to make and save money for school.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
20 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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As rain turned from mist to torrent, the fashionista crowd swarmed up the marble steps of the Petit Palais, pressing together under a narrow, gilded awning like ants escaping a flood.—
Victoria Bousis,
Rolling Stone,
21 Apr. 2025
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By Biz Carson | Bloomberg In San Francisco’s financial district, the One Montgomery building evokes the opulence of America’s turn of the 20th century gilded age.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
17 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The Bears traded away a massive amount of draft currency, sending the 49ers a four-pack of picks — Nos. 3, 67 and 111 in that year’s draft plus a 2018 third-rounder — to slide up one peg to No. 2 on the draft board to draft Mitch Trubisky, a quarterback at North Carolina.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Apr. 2025
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Their faces have appeared on currency, Streets bear their names, children learn about them in school.—
Kate Linthicum,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Gold.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gold. Accessed 30 Apr. 2025.
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