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windfall

[wind-fawl] / ˈwɪndˌfɔl /


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Some companies have taken advantage of the windfall by executing pension-risk transfers, shifting obligations to life insurers through annuity buyouts.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

But for the residents of Dol-llys Hall on the outskirts of Llanidloes, Powys, no windfall was necessary.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

That historic windfall has increasingly drawn Nvidia into bankrolling AI expansion through investments in startups.

From Barron's Aug. 26, 2026

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

If a sufficient amount of swainsonine had accumulated in his body, however, this windfall of small game would have provided little nourishment.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The crypto empire has created a huge chunk of his family’s recent windfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 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

They’d begun to come upon dead windfalls of pinetrees, great swaths of ruin cut through the countryside.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy




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