bonanza
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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
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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.
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