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Recent Examples of tailwind
The data center boom is a clear tailwind for you.
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The hosts talk about the tailwinds for the league right now.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Buoyed by policy tailwinds, the Golden State has an even greater incentive to do the same.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
That tailwind unfortunately won’t last.
—Michael Mische, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
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Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The hosts talk about the tailwinds for the league right now.
—Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 2 Oct. 2025
Buoyed by policy tailwinds, the Golden State has an even greater incentive to do the same.
—Jasmin Malik Chua, Sourcing Journal, 1 Oct. 2025
That tailwind unfortunately won’t last.
—Michael Mische, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailwind
Noun
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The analyst pointed to further China headwinds, which the company factored in again for 2026.—
Natasha Abellard,
CNBC,
5 Nov. 2025
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However the company has had rocky financial performance so far this year that saw sales and profits plunge in the first half of the year, and strong financial headwinds going forward from the loss of US government support for EV sales.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The first accounts of cheating and payoffs during exam week surfaced—a blow to the belief in fairness on which the whole system of guilds depended.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
6 Nov. 2025
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Google had hoped to void those changes with an appeal, but the ruling issued in July by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a legal blow for the tech giant, which has been waylaid in three separate antitrust trials affecting different pillars of its internet empire.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Fifty years ago this month, the gales of November swallowed the SS Edmund Fitzgerald along with her crew of 29 men, one of the largest ships to go down on Lake Superior and the Great Lakes.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
4 Nov. 2025
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What To Know Numerous weather alerts were in place for hundreds of thousands of people in Oregon and Washington on Wednesday, including a high surf advisory, hydrologic outlook, small craft advisory and gale warning.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Two Bulls lives in a trailer home that was one of 200 provided more than a decade ago by the Federal Emergency Management Agency following a devastating tornado.—
Alicia Wallace,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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In December of 2015, four tornadoes ripped through the region, killing two people and injuring seven more.—
Diana Leyva,
Nashville Tennessean,
6 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The plant was closed in 2020, after its cooling towers were damaged during a violent windstorm.—
Abhishek Bhardwaj,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Oct. 2025
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This year, workers will also need to assemble new 15-foot-strands of lights because many were broken during the windstorm that fueled the Eaton fire, Wardlaw said.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Sustained, strong winds with even stronger gusts are happening.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
6 Nov. 2025
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The strongest wind gusts were reported over coastal ridges in excess of 75 mph.—
Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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This includes trailing showers or squalls, as the strengthening system passes to their north and east on Oct. 10 and into the weekend.—
Doyle Rice,
USA Today,
8 Oct. 2025
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While flying over southeast Ohio, the Shenandoah encountered a powerful squall line that tore the airship apart.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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This week, Kenvue, the consumer health spin-off from Johnson & Johnson, found itself at the epicenter of a market tempest this week.—
Sheryl Estrada,
Fortune,
9 Sep. 2025
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The tempest over the logo began last week, when the company announced plans for a simplified design featuring only the company’s name.—
Dee-Ann Durbin,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
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“Tailwind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailwind. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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