windfall

It's due to be replaced in 2030 by another windfall tax, which operators like more because it's only triggered when prices are high and falls back when they are low.

From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026

I’d like to help her make smart decisions with this windfall and make sure there aren’t any unexpected consequences of receiving an inheritance at her age.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 18, 2026

It was a life-changing amount of money for Akil, who could then use his windfall to finance his next search.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

That windfall could deepen the roots of the game domestically, Canada Soccer says, through more funding for youth participation, coaching development, and support for senior and youth national teams.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

It is true we have no right to this windfall.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

“Some employees will spend their windfalls on housing, and some will spend it on other things — but large liquidity events like this do have meaningful effects on local real-estate markets,” said Zhao.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 13, 2026

It’s also allowing venture investors to cash out and pour their windfalls into new startups working on innovations that could improve and even save lives—e.g., cancer vaccines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 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