windfall
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OpenAI’s public debut is expected to deliver a windfall to its backers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
Plenty of ideas are already in the air about how to spend the windfall: new pavements, renovating the school or offering home-help services.
From Barron's • Jun. 5, 2026
But less and less of that windfall reaches the millions of Sudanese it once sustained.
From Los Angeles Times • May 31, 2026
Vulcan, which at the time had fewer than 50 employees, said it would use the windfall to build a large new facility that would churn out thousands of tons of magnets a year.
From Salon • May 31, 2026
The heir who wins the windfall will be the one who finds the fourth.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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