windfall
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OpenAI is now valued at $852 billion and is widely expected to go public in the next year, which would deliver a massive windfall for Thrive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 15, 2026
Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
All of these factors help to boost the appeal of an immediate financial windfall.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Remittances flowed into remote villages where the most reliable way to reinvest the windfall was to send another family member across the Sahara.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
We walk along, and when I come to the patch of windfall apples, I kick one so hard it ricochets off the trunk of an elm tree.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
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
Social-media was littered with memes about lucky investors celebrating their windfalls, including those with just one or two SpaceX shares.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 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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