: one that gushes
specifically
: an oil well with a copious natural flow
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But with President Joe Biden’s election in 2020, the money spigot opened like a gusher.
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Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
That gusher of findings will include new observations of exoplanets—or planets orbiting other stars; new surveys of the structure of the Milky Way; and new studies of dark energy, the mysterious, invisible force that causes the universe to expand continuously at an ever-accelerating rate.
—Jeffrey Kluger/greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
That money gusher, according to the Post, enabled nine years of boundless privatization of national security work.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2010
The city, where the Spindletop gusher kicked off an oil rush in 1901, hosts its version of Oktoberfest in early October at Rogers Park.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2024
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Jon Coupal, Orange County Register, 15 Feb. 2025
That gusher of findings will include new observations of exoplanets—or planets orbiting other stars; new surveys of the structure of the Milky Way; and new studies of dark energy, the mysterious, invisible force that causes the universe to expand continuously at an ever-accelerating rate.
—Jeffrey Kluger/greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025
That money gusher, according to the Post, enabled nine years of boundless privatization of national security work.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2010
The city, where the Spindletop gusher kicked off an oil rush in 1901, hosts its version of Oktoberfest in early October at Rogers Park.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2024
See All Example Sentences for gusher
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“Gusher.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gusher. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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gusher
noun
gush·er
ˈgəsh-ər 
: one that gushes
especially
: an oil well with a very plentiful natural flow
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