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  • noun Plural form of windfall.

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Examples

  • I guess when you are reaping such windfalls from the health and drug companies you would do anything to try to stop this bill.

    GOP senator blasts Dems health care proposals 2009

  • Hitting back at Oil company windfalls is a first step.

    Schneider: Gas tax suspension proves popular 2008

  • While promoting global warming catastrophe exagerations could offer short-term windfalls, the rebound effect would create a significant soft market which would devastate the industry.

    Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit 2007

  • While promoting global warming catastrophe exaggerations could offer short-term windfalls, the rebound effect would create a significant soft market which would devastate the industry.

    Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit 2007

  • So, in an era where others are giving up the grind of five-day ordeals to pursue to short-term windfalls in Twenty20 cricket, the New Zealand captain looks like going the other way.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By MICHAEL DONALDSON 2010

  • So, in an era where others are giving up the grind of five-day ordeals to pursue to short-term windfalls in Twenty20 cricket, the New Zealand captain looks like going the other way.

    Stuff.co.nz - Stuff By MICHAEL DONALDSON 2010

  • During the spring and early summer she had had two or three "windfalls" -- one or two small presents of money, and once her father had given her a quarter for hunting out from an enormous pile certain numbers of a magazine he wished to consult.

    A Missionary Twig Emma L. Burnett

  • Indeed, when Allais experimented with a roomful of top-flight theoretical economists at a celebrated meeting in France in 1952, Arrow recalled, the answers given suggested the scholars wouldn’t behave according to their own axioms when confronted with the certainty of short-term gain against the possibility of long-term windfalls.

    Economic Principals David Warsh 1993

  • -- Mullberries, of course, would not be bought for the purpose, but those who possess a mulberry tree in their garden will do well to utilise what are called windfalls by making mulberry jelly.

    Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet A. G. Payne 1867

  • Clemon called windfalls under the law "reprehensible" but stopped short of addressing whether it violated the constitutional rights of prisoners.

    Sand Mountain Reporter: News 2009

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