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windfall

[wind-fawl] / ˈwɪndˌfɔl /


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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 expected earnings windfall comes as the amount of refined products available on the market has fallen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Like other electrical-equipment suppliers, Schneider has been riding a wave of demand for products in data centers sparked by artificial intelligence, and has moved to redeploy the windfall to dealmaking.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

That would provide a windfall while being "a lot more bearable", in the words of one bank executive.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

If a sufficient amount of swainsonine had accumulated in his body, however, this windfall of small game would have provided little nourishment.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

Do you think investors are going to write off these massive AI windfalls, or write them down?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 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

Lim Chae-hoon, the sales head of a BMW dealership in Seoul, said his customers frequently mention their stock windfalls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

After that he always stuffed his pockets with windfalls.

From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes


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