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On 10 March, one UK winner took home a £181m jackpot - the third-largest in UK National Lottery history - while two UK-based winners shared a £125m jackpot with a French player in April.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

This jackpot portrayal of working motherhood never ceases to be a thrill for me.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Vincent Guerra said uncovering the WhatsApp group was like "hitting the jackpot"

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

The Times sports section once again hit the jackpot with Bill Plaschke’s column on Eric Sondheimer coupled with Sondheimer’s own column on his 50 top memories of his 50 years of reporting high school sports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

This was opened by a man dressed in his shirt sleeves, wearing no tie, but who, upon my asking for the chauffeur of the house, replied cheerfully that I had 'hit the jackpot first time'.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

And backers of AI companies have billions, if not trillions, of reasons to hope their gambles aren’t just once-in-a-generation jackpots, but once in a human existence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 18, 2026

In fact, in the case of the 50 largest lottery jackpots claimed to date, the prize has been split by two or more winners 10 times.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 22, 2025

The Powerball jackpot has soared to an estimated $1.5 billion for Saturday night’s drawing, the fifth largest in game history and the seventh highest among all lottery jackpots in the U.S.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2025

The highest ever Powerball jackpots were both won in California — in Nov. 2022 when Edwin Castor of Altadena purchased a ticket worth $2.04 billion and in Oct.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2025

More people have won lottery jackpots than flown in space.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson