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bonanza

[buh-nan-zuh, boh-] / bəˈnæn zə, boʊ- /
NOUN
windfall
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An author winning the Nobel Prize in literature is about as big a bonanza of demand as you can imagine.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

Americans spent less at gas stations due to cheaper fuel and bought less online after Amazon’s summer sales bonanza.

From MarketWatch Aug. 14, 2026

The Metro covers the hunt for eclipse glasses, dubbing it Black Wednesday as the demand for specs to watch the solar eclipse has resulted in a "money-making bonanza" for shops.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has proved a bonanza for Big Oil.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 31, 2026

These new GMO seeds could be a bonanza for the seed companies.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

SpaceX employees are racing to figure out what to do with their coming bonanzas.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 9, 2026

The researchers suggest that these young eagles could be taking advantage of seasonal food bonanzas such as spawning salmon, nesting waterfowl, or carcasses of large mammals.

From Science Daily Dec. 11, 2025

Some merchants — a cheesemonger, a produce vendor, a baker — said that they had long counted local householders as their main customers, but that picnic-sized portions for tourists yielded cash bonanzas.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 11, 2024

It didn’t erase all that went sideways during the losses, or even prior victories that were goal-scoring bonanzas in which defensive play was abandoned.

From Seattle Times Dec. 21, 2022

Although the pilots tell us that this is a good time to sail in a southeast direction, they cannot deny that they endure very great hardships from the calms caused by the bonanzas.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 04 of 55 1576-1582 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson




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