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windfall

[wind-fawl] / ˈwɪndˌfɔl /


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The couple’s windfall from BNY reflects a growing trend.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 11, 2026

The Moneyist weighs in on a couple split by an unexpected windfall.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 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

He lay hidden during the day and went in search of food at night— turnips, a few ears of corn from a crib, a few windfall apples—nothing that would be missed.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Any random windfalls, such as a tax refund or work bonus, should also go toward paying off your credit-card bill.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 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

Among the largest windfalls recorded in the filings is $263 million in earnings connected to the sale of equity in World Liberty Financial, the president’s cryptocurrency business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 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


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