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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

Here’s what I have learned from my windfall.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 4, 2026

For those with LNG facilities outside of the Gulf, this has offered an earnings windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 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

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

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

MarketWatch columnist Aditi Shrikant explains how a tighter budget, automatic payments and unexpected cash windfalls can shrink your balance without sacrificing your financial safety net.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 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

Some of the firms scored their windfalls due to their closeness to founders like Musk, raising questions about whether they will have the same access to future entrepreneurs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 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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