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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

Friday’s buyback hike is Eni’s third of the year and illustrates how the conflict in the Middle East and record high refining margins are offering energy majors an unexpected windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

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

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

Those deals will likely add to the company’s historic cash windfall.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026

"You know, ashes scattered to the winds, so the one who wins the windfall gets— Oh, never mind."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin

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

Some of the firms scored their windfalls due to their closeness to founders like Musk, raising questions about whether they will have the same access to future entrepreneurs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 18, 2026

They’d begun to come upon dead windfalls of pinetrees, great swaths of ruin cut through the countryside.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy


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