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

The totality zone in Spain covers a year-round population of 16 million people, where the rare phenomenon is delivering an unexpected economic windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

The heir who wins the windfall will be the one who finds the FOURTH.

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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

Even there, they were often overshadowed until scoring massive windfalls from recent AI and other investments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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