tailwind

noun

Definition of tailwindnext
as in headwind

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Recent Examples of tailwind These efforts to cap the wholesale acquisition cost (WAC) of the drugs counteracted the GLP-1 tailwind, resulting in a net-neutral top-line impact for Cardinal Health in the June quarter. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026 That’s modest and, again, will provide a tailwind as rates fall and PTY’s borrowing costs decline. — Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026 Had history caught a different tailwind, those crêpe shops might have been fish and chips joints. — Caitlin Gunther, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for tailwind
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailwind
  1. headwind
  2. blow
  3. gale
  4. tornado
  5. windstorm
  6. gust
  7. squall
  8. tempest
Noun
  • Such headwinds are unfamiliar for Reform, which had previously been in the ascendancy, leading national opinion polls and enjoying historic gains in local elections.
    — Reagan Yip, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Certification bodies and government stakeholders – constituencies that typically favor precision – are trending in the opposite direction, choosing flexibility over rigidity in the face of political headwinds.
    — Mike Feibus, Fortune, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of headwind
Noun
  • That would be a heavy blow for an economy growing at less than 1% a year.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Pats were dealt a tough blow Thursday when Brown suffered an injury that forced his removal from the game.
    — Chad Graff, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of blow
Noun
  • The blaze raged through pine forests and scrubland through the weekend, whipped by gale force winds that often prevented water-dropping planes from operating.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • Winds cripple aerial firefighting Nearly 500 firefighters and 23 aircraft were deployed, but gale-force winds drove flames through dry forest and crippled the response, preventing some aircraft from reaching the sea to collect water.
    — Elena Becatoros, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2026
Definition of gale
Noun
  • AccuWeather data from April showed Illinois already leading the nation in tornado, hail and high‑wind reports before the destruction last month.
    — Daily Southtown, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Meteorologists have also improved in their ability to detect and understand the storms that cause tornadoes, says Brett Borchardt, a senior meteorologist at Chicago’s National Weather Service.
    — Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of tornado
Noun
  • However, premiums across much of South Florida remain materially higher than national averages, particularly for properties requiring windstorm and flood coverage.
    — Malana VanTyker, Miami Herald, 7 Aug. 2026
  • All the framing members were stacked on top of one another, and the carpenter had even installed metal connectors to ensure the roof rafters would not get pulled up and off the walls in a windstorm.
    — Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026
Definition of windstorm
Noun
  • Wind gusts of 30 to 45 mph will be common near showers, with isolated gusts up to 55 mph possible.
    — Callie Zanandrie, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2026
  • Two weeks earlier, over the first weekend of July, a slow-moving system broke a brutal heat wave with wind gusts near 80 mph and knocked out power to nearly 300,000 New Jersey customers.
    — Ravi S. Bhalla, New York Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
Definition of gust
Noun
  • But in the squall of war, Etna’s talents also beget inexorable demands.
    — Rachel Vorona Cote, The Atlantic, 30 July 2026
  • What had once been a possible squall on the horizon, another dose of unpredict-able Pacara weather, now felt like a credible threat; the clouds had begun to travel.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 27 July 2026
Definition of squall
Noun
  • Cusk, best known for her trilogy of largely plotless novels, has gotten embroiled in a tabloid tempest involving a Hollywood icon precisely because of her new book's plot.
    — Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
  • But the tempest over his future is pushing the rest of the Republican Party to a breaking point.
    — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of tempest

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