gold rush
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of gold rush
An Americanism dating back to 1875–80
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San Francisco real estate agent Butch Haze of Compass has seen tech booms followed by ravenous bursts of homebuying since the first internet gold rush of the late 1990s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
While many venture investors see the rise of young entrepreneurs as positive, some worry about the motivations of some founders during the AI gold rush.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
This technological gold rush has propelled economic momentum in key parts of the global economy even as the oil squeeze hurt others.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026
The surge of development here mirrors a data center gold rush across Texas over the past year that is outpacing the speed of regulation.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Gates compared the Internet to the gold rush, the idea being that more money was made selling Levi’s, picks, shovels, and hotel rooms to the gold diggers than from digging up gold from the earth.
From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman
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