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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 AI 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

That historic windfall has increasingly drawn Nvidia into bankrolling AI expansion through investments in startups.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

The laundry workers earned 40 cents an hour, ranking them among the lowest paid of all war workers, but with few job options available to them, it felt like a windfall.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

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

On Tuesday, social-media feeds were littered with memes about lucky individual investors celebrating their sudden windfalls, including those who were sitting on just one or two SpaceX shares.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

The early apples were now ripening, and the grass of the orchard was littered with windfalls.

From "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell