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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

Adidas lifted its profit guidance for the year after receiving a windfall of around $220 million from U.S. tariff refunds and after third-quarter revenue jumped 9% on year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 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

“Better, ten kilos of rice and two bars of soap,” she said, which we do need badly, but I despaired for an imaginary windfall that would bring nothing but more white starch into this house.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Any random windfalls, such as a tax refund or work bonus, should also go toward paying off your credit-card bill.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026

Companies are using tariff refund windfalls to cut prices and absorb higher supply-chain costs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 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

As a European cyclotron center, it would be joined by Frederic Joliot’s lab in Paris, Bohr’s in Copenhagen, and then, miraculously, by the Cavendish, which in 1936 found itself “wallowing in cash” from two windfalls.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik