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Definition

a sudden happening that brings good fortune — especially wealth

or:

an especially rich vein of precious ore such as gold or silver

Bonanza was also the name of a famous western cowboy television series that ran 14 seasons until 1973 and is still in syndication.

proved to be a bonanza for the local residents

I'd baked three pies with apples from a nearby orchard.
"Bonanza!" Brian shouted.
Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle

bonanza = sudden good fortune

Birthday parties were bonanzas for him.
John Grogan -- Marley & Me
Eating lunch at Bonanza and having their portraits taken in matching sweaters.
Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
For them it was just a new wrinkle in a ratings bonanza, but it was much better than Nick, did you kill your wife?
Gillian Flynn -- Gone Girl
"And break it out? and walk off with it for a hundred yards?" demanded Matthewson, a Bonanza King, he of the seven hundred vaunt.
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild
Tip-wise, Saturday night had been a bonanza, but Friday had been disappointing, which was why she'd resolved to stick it out one last night.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Best of Me
Terry Wickett, one of the chemists here, calls this 'Bonanza Hall.'
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
"for the cops it was a bonanza," Bratton writes.
Malcolm Gladwell -- The Tipping Point
I told her I worked at Shirt Bonanza, downstairs, and could get her some overstock maybe.
Neal Shusterman -- Unwind
Its tax revenues have given the county a bonanza for roads and the highest per capita school expenditure in the state.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
Sidney got Oz confused with an episode from "Bonanza."
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
He called me the next day and we went to lunch at Bonanza.
Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
There just aren't going to be any one-man bonanzas.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
50 in her pocket, a bonanza!
Judy Blume -- In the Unlikely Event
The tax cuts that are hampering America's schools have proved to be a marketing bonanza for companies like Exxon, Pizza Hut, and McDonald's.
Eric Schlosser -- Fast Food Nation
Oedipa had planned on nothing more involved that evening than watching Bonanza on the tube.
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
These new GMO seeds could be a bonanza for the seed companies.
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
Even though it was hardly what you might call a bonanza.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Sometimes Francie came across a bonanza: the bottom of a discarded wash boiler.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

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