broadly: any of various pyritic minerals resembling gold
Examples of fool's gold in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebToo many folks are substituting pills and powders for the real thing, and, in my view, substituting fool's gold for real gold.—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 7 Mar. 2024 There is going to be a lot of gold in the coming avalanche of data, but this gold will be dwarfed by the amount of 'fool's gold'.—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 20 Feb. 2012 This isn't the first time that a high-profile company has turned out to be a bit of fool's gold.—Joel Mathis, The Week, 15 Nov. 2022 This year's potential cheat-code player has turned into fool's gold instead.—Tony Holm, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2022 Winning off the efforts of Gordon, who will be on the wrong side of 35 when the Rockets are ready to actually contend, and Wood, who can walk entirely in a year, is fool's gold.—Rahat Huq, Chron, 7 Dec. 2021 Pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide mineral used in the paper and jewelry industries.—Reuters, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021 Worthless at first glance, this mineral is widely used in the chemical industry, and a new discovery suggests fool's gold is much more valuable than its name suggests.—David Bressan, Forbes, 27 June 2021 But that apparent turnaround proved fool's gold as the Kentucky collapsed in the final four minutes yet again, and Allen's attempt at a possible game-winning 3 clanked off the rim on the final possession of a season-ending 74-73 loss.—Jon Hale, The Courier-Journal, 11 Mar. 2021
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