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windfall

[wind-fawl] / ˈwɪndˌfɔl /


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Here’s what I have learned from my windfall.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

This federal funding windfall was contingent on Maryland’s Medicare spending per inpatient admission growing less than the national average.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

The chancellor is expected to use a windfall tax on banks to fund a package of spending measures to help households manage rising energy bills.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

But when a company reaps a balance-sheet windfall, the analysts often are happy to let the boost remain in the bottom line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026

She saw him from the kitchen window that afternoon gathering early windfall apples and dropping them in a burlap bag.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Do you think investors are going to write off these massive AI windfalls, or write them down?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

Companies are using tariff refund windfalls to cut prices and absorb higher supply-chain costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

Either way, the meanings are the same: great discoveries, whether of silk or of gravity, are always windfalls.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides


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