mother lodes

plural of mother lode
as in gold mines
an abundant source the university has long been a mother lode of athletic talent, with many alumni joining the rarefied ranks of the professionals

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  • This approach ensures that an organization’s data privacy and security requirements are consistently met through lifecycle management, where data repositories are continuously organized, even as new data is added.
    Jesse Todd, Forbes, 8 Jan. 2025
  • Unified data repositories or integration layers can solve this problem.
    Betsy Reed, Forbes, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Mother lodes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mother%20lodes. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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