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Example sentences for: windfall

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When the checks started showing up in mailboxes sometime after Christmas, many aid recipients were confused about why they got the windfall - and what to do with it.
In the short run, the massive price increases of the early and then late 1970s brought huge windfall profits to OPEC members (and, to a lesser extent, to the Western oil companies that still handled much of their production).
The ubiquitous "Make Money Fast" e-mail recasts the classic pyramid scheme as e-scam: Send $5 to the names on the list, add your own name to the bottom, and reap your windfall later.
7 billion windfall for the states, because under the reform the states get a fixed amount of federal money no matter how much they cut their rolls.
The poorest recipients could actually suffer from the windfall by losing their benefits under Medicaid, food-stamp and other programs.