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- noun Plural form of
trove .
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Examples
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But given that serious consideration of troves of evidence is the real state of play, we can rescue even the long-derided topic of telepathy from the dustbin of the culture wars.
Steve Volk: Paranormal is the new Normal Steve Volk 2011
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Instead, he has left treasure troves of incriminating evidence, all of it digitized and ready to be transmitted around the world in an instant.
William Bradley: Weinergate's Lasting Impact: The First Big Social Media Political Sex Scandal William Bradley 2011
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In part, their argument is about energy security: Recent discoveries of massive natural-gas troves from Texas to Pennsylvania mean the country is newly awash in the fuel.
Natural-Gas Trucks Face Long Haul Jeffrey Ball 2011
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The data-storage industry has been growing quickly on a soaring need for ways to store and access troves of documents and media.
Storage Demand Lifts EMC's Net 61% Shara Tibken 2011
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Truffle-hunting dogs have turned up troves of the valuable fungi in Germany, where they were never known to exist before, a new study reports.
Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Obama's Popularity and the Next Election May Be Tied to Gas Prices Mason Inman 2011
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Carl Icahn In recent years, Chesapeake and other companies have developed new drilling techniques that have unlocked huge troves of oil and natural gas trapped in dense rocks called shales.
Chesapeake Feels Icahn's Presence Ben Casselman 2011
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Although the main purpose of the District's new teacher evaluation system is to rate teachers' effectiveness, officials are beginning to use the fresh troves of data it generates for other purposes, such as assessing administrators and determining which universities produce the best- or least-prepared teachers.
D.C. schools to use data from teacher evaluation system in new ways Stephanie McCrummen 2011
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Although the main purpose of the District's new teacher evaluation system is to rate teachers' effectiveness, officials are beginning to use the fresh troves of data it generates for other purposes, such as assessing administrators and determining which universities produce the best- or least-prepared teachers.
D.C. schools to use data from teacher evaluation system in new ways Stephanie McCrummen 2011
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Although the main purpose of the District's new teacher evaluation system is to rate teachers' effectiveness, officials are beginning to use the fresh troves of data it generates for other purposes, such as assessing administrators and determining which universities produce the best- or least-prepared teachers.
D.C. schools to use data from teacher evaluation system in new ways Stephanie McCrummen 2011
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Truffle-hunting dogs have turned up troves of the valuable fungi in Germany, where they were never known to exist before, a new study reports.
Mason Inman: The Climate Post: Obama's Popularity and the Next Election May Be Tied to Gas Prices Mason Inman 2011
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