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as in benefits
something that brings a large gain or profit
The popular video game became an unexpected bonanza for the independent developers behind it.
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as in loads
a huge amount
The mailbox was stuffed with a bonanza of credit card offers.
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Recent Examples of bonanzas
What followed was an upfront pitch smaller in scope than the big bonanzas that other companies will hold next month, but still familiar.
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Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
Others are still undoing pandemic-era hiring bonanzas, and some blame layoffs on AI’s productivity.
—Molly Liebergall, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Apr. 2026
Others are still undoing pandemic-era hiring bonanzas, and some blame layoffs on AI’s productivity.
—Molly Liebergall, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bonanzas
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Our expert take The Blue Cash Preferred® Card from American Express is a low-fee card with generous cash-back rewards and useful ongoing benefits, such as a monthly Disney Bundle credit.—
Liz Knueven,
CNBC,
2 May 2026
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Social Security helps, but for most people, those benefits won't come close to covering the full cost of living comfortably, and that gap tends to widen the longer retirement lasts.—
Angelica Leicht,
CBS News,
1 May 2026
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Engineers can simulate movements, loads, and environmental conditions before real deployment.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Apr. 2026
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However, there are moments of reprieve between loads of clothes, sheets, and towels.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
26 Apr. 2026
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At Ross Stores, the compensation committee approved a similar adjustment on May 21, 2025, the proxy states, stripping tariff costs from calculations used to determine bonuses and long-term incentive payouts.—
Amanda Gerut,
Fortune,
29 Apr. 2026
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First, there are the big-name athletes to find and woo into competing on the streets of the UK’s capital, then the pace-makers, the notable debutants, and the tantalising head-to-heads to create; there’s the hotel bookings, the visas, the flights, the prize money and even bonuses to ponder over.—
Liam Tharme,
New York Times,
25 Apr. 2026
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Night after night after closing his Boyle Heights bicycle shop, Reyes brought his equipment down the long, dark corridor leading to the bikes — initially about 280 of them — that were tossed in piles over the years.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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An hour later, the device designed to plunge as deep as 4,000 meters is gliding over piles of round pitchers on the sea floor.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Apr. 2026
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Today’s space industry, too, offers many economic boons, with companies such as SpaceX and Blue Origin employing thousands.—
Anastasia Klimchynskaya,
The Conversation,
10 Apr. 2026
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While some experts fear aging societies are storing up economic problems, others say there could be unexpected boons.—
Manuela Castro,
CNN Money,
31 Mar. 2026
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The plane’s pieces are now, in effect, life rafts (though there are some actual oversize yellow inflatable rafts aboard that will come into play).—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2026
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The rafts have to be able to withstand exposure for 30 days, according to a code put out by the International Maritime Organization.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
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On rare occasions, books expected to be midlist titles become unexpected bestsellers, providing big revenue windfalls for their publisher.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
24 Apr. 2026
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Some filers who itemize tax breaks have also seen windfalls from the bigger federal deduction limit for state and local taxes, known as SALT.—
Kate Dore, CFP®, EA,
CNBC,
24 Apr. 2026
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The furniture is flanked by hundreds of jazz and classical CDs in tidy, towering racks, along with stacks of books and magazines.—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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Snowflake and Databricks all have their own semantic layer offerings baked into stacks enterprises are already paying for.—
Lily Mae Lazarus,
Fortune,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Bonanzas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bonanzas. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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