Erin O'Connor

When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt it down. I was making cheese on toast when flames escaped from the grill. My father stopped the fire with blind panic and excessive water. I was forgiven, but it put me off cooking for years.

English Model

Murray Rothbard

Leading the boom of 1838 were state governments, who, finding themselves with the unexpected windfall of a distributed surplus from the federal government, proceeded to spend the money wildly and borrow even more extravagantly on public works and other uneconomic forms of 'investment.

American Economist

Bob Menendez

During the 2005 Bush tax holiday, corporations didn't bring back the billions they stashed overseas to build new factories, increase wages, or create more jobs. The lion's share of that windfall went to CEO raises and stock buybacks for investors on Wall Street.

American Politician

Rachel Maddow

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

American Journalist

Prashant Bhushan

Our courts must send a clear signal that India is not a banana republic where foreign companies can be invited to loot our resources and even avoid paying taxes on their windfall gains from the sale of those resources.

Indian Lawyer

Paul Theroux

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.

American Novelist

Rosamund Pike

I remember times of anxiety, ups and downs, and times of unexpected windfalls. But my parents loved what they did. And because their work was also their hobby, it taught me that work could be fulfilling.

British Actress

Reid Hoffman

What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.

American Businessman

Michael Mandelbaum

The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

American Author

Jeff Greene

My early windfall was a result of the excesses of the S&L era.

Windfall usually implies a positive event or good fortune.

Positive Context

A windfall comes without warning, surprising the recipient.

Unexpected Surprise

The gain is often unrelated to personal effort or work.

Not Merited

In agriculture, windfall refers to fruits falling naturally, not being picked.

Natural Process

People may collect windfalls without cost, as they're not harvested.

Often Free

Windfalls might be bruised or imperfect, but still usable.

Imperfect Condition

People often use windfall to describe unexpected inherited wealth.

Sudden Inheritance

Windfalls in this context are bonuses, not earned through work or investment.

Not Earned

Windfall profits or inheritance may be subject to taxation.

Often Taxed

 had said earlier Nigerians even more worried government wasn't delivering service they had lost confidence in our ability to do the right thing this time government was committed to spending this windfall and let me just underscore that the windfall gave us our own domestic resources a billion dollars a

The path toward...

 there's really nothing to give away that we're living in in a modern world meanwhile wealthy urbanites had another advantage over the rest of afghanistan passports and the resources to leave many have moved to other countries taking their windfalls with them there's so much of that money that was meant

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 We gave kids this windfall of Goldfish for themselves and a chance to give some of their Goldfish away to a puppet named Monkey. I found even more treats, and I'm going to give them all to you.

Helping others makes us...

 and what are those deficits being used to accomplish? It matters how the money is spent and who ends up with the resulting surplus. Tax cuts that deliver huge windfalls for those at the top

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 are opportunistic hunters lying in wait for an unsuspecting animal to come along like the baby king cobra the snakes misguided instinct is a windfall for the

 This chimpanzee stumbles across a windfall of overripe plums. Many of them have split open, drawing him to their intoxicating fruity odor. He gorges himself

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 but the flames can provide a feast migrating San Martin's braved the smoke to take advantage of the tiny insects that flee the flames a welcomed windfall

Devastating Wildfires on...

 but others believed Mongolia's gold copper and coal were far more precious than its environment mining has been a windfall to a country long mired in

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 to take advantage of the tiny insects that flee the flames a welcome windfall to a bird on a thousand mile journey from africa to europe