Golconda

noun

Definition of Golcondanext
as in gravy train

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  1. gravy train
  2. bonanza
  3. stash
  4. hoard
  5. armory
  6. storehouse
  7. cache
  8. repository
Noun
  • The gravy train didn’t last long, though—Thune ran for South Dakota’s other Senate seat in 2004 and managed to unseat Daschle, the sitting leader of the Democratic caucus and the same man who beat his former boss, Abdnor, 18 years before.
    Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Those are just some of the consumers who have been at the end of this gravy train.
    Greg Petro, Forbes, 24 Nov. 2024
Definition of gravy train
Noun
  • And Moana 2, with its natural themes and a world with coconuts, provides a potential demographic bonanza.
    Louis Biscotti, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Quartz’s Francisco Velasquez broke down the annual internet buying bonanza.
    Melvin Backman, Quartz, 4 Dec. 2024
Definition of bonanza
Noun
  • These shades offer 100 percent UV protection and filter the reflective glare of the high-altitude sun reflecting off fresh stashes of powder.
    Terry Ward, Travel + Leisure, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Put on a favorite holiday playlist and make a stash of pretty handmade gift tags.
    Better Homes & Gardens, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of stash
Noun
  • According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), the hoard is worth more than $1 million.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Limos provide a front-row seat to the hysteria as hoards of humanity heave themselves at the windows, mouths agape in shock or screams.
    Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of hoard
Noun
  • No one seems to know when the local American Legion Post began holding services for Armistice Day — Veterans Day or when the annual ceremony was first held at the armory.
    Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 16 Nov. 2024
  • The kibbutz’s rapid response team had only four rifles available to defend against heavily armed terrorists; the Israel Defense Forces had removed other weapons from the armory for fear of theft.
    Yaakov Lappin, Sun Sentinel, 2 Oct. 2024
Definition of armory
Noun
  • The way that Kalief Browder, 16, medium brown and smallish for his age, came to reside in that storehouse of hurt for three years is a story in its own right.
    Jelani Cobb, Rolling Stone, 4 Dec. 2024
  • The properties include the former powerhouse and storehouse of the hospital campus and the home of the IMPD Mounted Patrol, which will be vacated soon, DMD officials said in the request.
    Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Oct. 2024
Definition of storehouse
Noun
  • As people lost trust in banks, and in the peso, black-market U.S. dollars became the country’s semi-official currency; over time, Argentineans are thought to have stashed away some two hundred and seventy-seven billion dollars, possibly the largest cache outside the United States.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Head west of Willemstad for one of Curaçao's true treasures: a cache of untouched, undeveloped shores.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2024
Definition of cache
Noun
  • Rather than simply autocompleting sections of code, as current AI tools do, these agents can take on more complex work, such as checking code into repositories or combining data to enable analysis.
    Will Knight, WIRED, 11 Dec. 2024
  • Norma and David had converted the median strip beyond their sidewalk into a native-plant repository—Christmas fern, aster, monarda, bergamot.
    Lauren Groff, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2024
Definition of repository
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