windfall

The gold rush for artificial intelligence has already created a windfall for the state from a surge in income tax collected on stock market gains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

This windfall ends up in the hands of a powerful few.

From Salon ● Aug. 20, 2026

OpenAI is now valued at $852 billion and is widely expected to go public in the next year, which would deliver a massive windfall for Thrive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026

A coup for Bezos and a windfall for FSG - where does deal leave Liverpool?

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

It is true we have no right to this windfall.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

SpaceX’s initial public offering in June, and mooted IPOs by OpenAI and Anthropic, could generate tens of billions more dollars for schools—assuming high-flyers don’t vamoose to avoid a hefty tax bill on their windfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 2026

Pacific island nations are divided on whether deep-sea mining will deliver economic windfalls, or environmental catastrophe.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

Refiners PBF Energy and Valero also reported windfalls, with the latter earning $3.7 billion, another fivefold increase from the year before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The investments covered in the ledger were tiny percentages of SpaceX but would have generated windfalls.

From Salon ● Jun. 19, 2026

As a European cyclotron center, it would be joined by Frederic Joliot’s lab in Paris, Bohr’s in Copenhagen, and then, miraculously, by the Cavendish, which in 1936 found itself “wallowing in cash” from two windfalls.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik