windfall

The union has said revenue can be raised through a windfall tax on banks.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

Among those who expect to receive an inheritance or financial gift, 43% say their retirement planning depends a great deal on that expected windfall, LendingTree found.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026

Chalk the good times up to a confluence of fortunate events: red-hot artificial-intelligence spending, federal spending and the windfall companies are getting in the form of refunds of some of their past tariff payments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

But for the residents of Dol-llys Hall on the outskirts of Llanidloes, Powys, no windfall was necessary.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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

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