windfall

When Rees hears of the mobile-home park being relocated, she thinks of the landlord who gets to retire with a windfall after chasing rent for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

All of these factors help to boost the appeal of an immediate financial windfall.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026

It wasn’t a windfall, but every little bit helped offset the cost of the move.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

As SpaceX's shares are unlocked Thursday, some early employees who received thousands of stock options as part of their compensation packages could see a massive windfall.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

Palsson and Bobby might see some money, it was suggested, if the film made a profit, although it was highly unlikely for a documentary to realize even a slight windfall.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

SpaceX’s initial public offering in June, and mooted IPOs by OpenAI and Anthropic, could generate tens of billions more dollars for schools—assuming high-flyers don’t vamoose to avoid a hefty tax bill on their windfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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

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