bonanzas

noun

plural of bonanza
1
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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2
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 Club homeowners are not merely annoyed by tourist bonanzas like the World Cup — Airbnb is FIFA’s official lodging partner — or the Ultra music festival, Spring Break and Formula 1 weekend. — Linda Robertson, Miami Herald, 16 July 2026 What followed was an upfront pitch smaller in scope than the big bonanzas that other companies will hold next month, but still familiar. — 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
  1. benefits
  2. loads
  3. bonuses
  4. piles
  5. boons
  6. rafts
  7. windfalls
  8. stacks
Noun
  • Presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen vowed deep budget cuts Tuesday to lower the deficit, but has also pledged to increase retirement benefits.
    — Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Eco effort Explora is a Certified B (or B Corp) company that works to address climate change, stimulate the local workforce, and provide benefits to the community by sourcing most of its products locally.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of benefits
Noun
  • And some manage the difficult trick of tasting like fall without giving off loads of scented-candle energy.
    — Monti Carlo, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026
  • PlusAI uses sand to simulate the loads its trailers must carry to support research and development testing, as carrying the material closely mimics real freight conditions.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of loads
Noun
  • The contract also stipulates longevity bonuses for staff with at least ten years of service, up to twelve weeks of paid parental leave, stronger health and safety protections, and more bereavement leave.
    — News Desk, Artforum, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Betr wants to give you a chance to earn $200 in bonuses when using promo code FOXNEWS and wagering on Monday Night Football or MLB Playoff action.
    — OutKick, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of bonuses
Noun
  • There simply wasn’t enough of either scattered across the piles, the team found.
    — Mike McRae October 06, New Atlas, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Nearby, the neat rows of grapevines and fig trees his family had tended for three generations had vanished under piles of rubble.
    — Ghada Abdulfattah, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of piles
Noun
  • Lower agricultural revenue would leave the government with less money, and lower domestic food production would drive up consumer prices—both boons to the most extreme Peronist populists running against Milei in 2027.
    — DAN RESTREPO, Foreign Affairs, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Live captioning, one of the biggest boons of waveguide smart glasses, also works well on the MemoMind.
    — Will Greenwald, PC Magazine, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of boons
Noun
  • This type of maritime migration is different from the once-common arrivals of rafts and other homemade vessels that Cubans are known to use to escape their homeland, and the overloaded freighters and sailboats used by people fleeing Haiti.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 22 Sep. 2026
  • The Coast Guard had dropped inflatable rafts in the water nearby, but the teen — who was suffering from hypothermia — was too weak to swim to them.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 13 Sep. 2026
Definition of rafts
Noun
  • The mostly male, mostly young consumers of this content came up in the pandemic days of meme stock windfalls, speculative crypto investments, and hypebeast product drops.
    — Adam Erace, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2026
  • In the early stages, an aspiring short seller should seek knowledge acquisition more than financial windfalls.
    — David Capablanca, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of windfalls
Noun
  • About a dozen mock work stations broadcast the footage on small monitors, and visitors can study stacks of work-in-progress images that also function as flip books.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 30 Sep. 2026
  • Most security stacks were built to watch humans log in, not to watch agents act.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of stacks

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“Bonanzas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bonanzas. Accessed 10 Oct. 2026.

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