make a killing
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Daniel Sundheim’s D1 Capital Partners is another hedge-fund firm that stands to make a killing when SpaceX goes public.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
It hardly takes a detective to know that at the box office, they’d make a killing.
From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2022
Distributed domestically by United Artists Releasing via MGM and EON, the latest installment in the James Bond franchise squarely met expectations in North American markets this weekend while continuing to make a killing overseas.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2021
The book is about a "stockbroker who plays on superstitions about the date to create chaos on Wall Street and make a killing on the market," History.com says on its website.
From Fox News • Aug. 13, 2021
If it were not, one could make a killing on the stock exchange by having a computer that would remember tomorrow’s prices!
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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