windfall

Newly enriched Americans are bound to spend some of their windfall on new cars, yachts, houses and the like.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026

A coup for Bezos and a windfall for FSG - where does deal leave Liverpool?

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 11, 2026

After producers logged windfall profits thanks to the war in Iran, the president called on them to cut fuel prices for consumers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

At full dusk or thereabouts he ate three rice balls, a slab of rock cod, and two windfall apples from a wild tree behind Bender’s Spring.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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

SpaceX is among the most widely held investments across colleges and universities, endowment executives say, likely making the rocket company’s coming IPO one of the great windfalls for American endowments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 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