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Examples of black gold in a Sentence
After months of drilling, they finally hit black gold.
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Wildcatters searching for oil have punched thousands of holes into the Texas soil in search of black gold over the past 150 years.
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Alejandra Martinez The Texas Tribune, arkansasonline.com, 9 Feb. 2025
Casanova migrated from black gold to yellow, then began the job-hopping customary on Wall Street before settling in at Van Eck in 2011.
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William Baldwin, Forbes, 1 Feb. 2025
Zendaya is sporting a 5-carat old mine cut, set east-west in gray or black gold on a yellow gold shank, according to jewelry experts.
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Lea Veloso, StyleCaster, 6 Jan. 2025
These experimental black gold dates taste like a combination of sugar, caramel and the mystery flavor Cobb mentioned that's hard to identify but pleasantly clings to your mouth all the same.
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Ani Gasparyan, USA TODAY, 18 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1910, in the meaning defined above
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“Black gold.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black%20gold. Accessed 20 Feb. 2025.
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