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bonanza

[buh-nan-zuh, boh-] / bəˈnæn zə, boʊ- /
NOUN
windfall
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Shares in US tech giants were pummeled on Friday, capping a week of earnings results that raised questions on Wall Street about whether the AI spending bonanza was sustainable.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

The growing attractiveness of Madrid has fostered an influx of wealth, especially in real estate -- but the bonanza has come at a cost.

From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 2026

For Chinese consumers, it was a blueberry bonanza.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

Members of the Moneyist Facebook Group also suggest remembering the staff in your 24-hour bonanza at these two establishments.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

While some nomadic hunter-gatherers may occasionally bag more food than they can consume in a few days, such a bonanza is of little use to them because they cannot protect it.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

SpaceX employees are racing to figure out what to do with their coming bonanzas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026

The researchers suggest that these young eagles could be taking advantage of seasonal food bonanzas such as spawning salmon, nesting waterfowl, or carcasses of large mammals.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 11, 2025

Some merchants — a cheesemonger, a produce vendor, a baker — said that they had long counted local householders as their main customers, but that picnic-sized portions for tourists yielded cash bonanzas.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 11, 2024

It didn’t erase all that went sideways during the losses, or even prior victories that were goal-scoring bonanzas in which defensive play was abandoned.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022

Granger had intended to spin him a yarn about great bonanzas in Yukon, which he had discovered.

From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Coningsby Dawson


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