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Recent Examples of tailwindAnd the opportunity—and even necessity—for refinancing corporate debt is another tailwind, according to the IEA.—Justin Worland, Time, 29 May 2026 Lower rates would be a tailwind — but higher taxes on investment income would reduce after-tax returns on affected assets, and prices could fall accordingly.—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 28 May 2026 Many families did receive an extra tailwind this year after Republican lawmakers' signature tax and spending bill led to bigger tax refunds.—Stephan Bisaha, NPR, 28 May 2026 The broader Central Loop area has some other tailwinds, however.—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 22 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for tailwind
Even as macro headwinds intensify, the local mall remains a highly magnetic destination.
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Arthur Zaczkiewicz,
Footwear News,
11 June 2026
Still, the Democratic candidates clearly have an advantage in a year when the electorate — facing high gas prices and other economic headwinds — appear to be shifting against the president’s party, said Mike Madrid, a Republican political consultant in the state.
The rookie took a deep breath, settled into his stance and watched as Houston’s pitcher, Enyel De Los Santos, attempted to deliver the final blow.
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Latif Love
June 14,
Kansas City Star,
14 June 2026
Star third baseman José Ramírez broke a bone in his left hand on a swing Saturday and will be sidelined for an indefinite period, a massive blow to the two-time defending AL Central champions.
Ponson had heard the lore of fast-developing storms in the northern Gulf — systems that escaped the notice of meteorologists — before exploding into near-gale winds, towering waves and rare but deadly storms.
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Kelly McGreal,
FOXNews.com,
5 Apr. 2026
The sky’s surreal red hues were reminiscent of apocalyptic scenes over Crete where the storm that hit the island with gale-force winds combined with a Saharan dust storm.
Supercells are more likely to produce tornadoes than other types of thunderstorms, but twisters are still possible in other storms elsewhere in the Midwest and into parts of the Plains.
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Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
Large and long-lived tornadoes are possible, along with destructive wind gusts up to 80 mph, and hail up to the size of baseballs.
Damaging wind gusts potentially topping 75 mph will take over as the main threat later Wednesday night, with individual storms expected to merge into cohesive lines from eastern Kansas first and eventually expand to western Ohio.
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Mary Gilbert,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
The National Weather Service warned of winds from the west of 15 to 30 mph with gusts of up to 40 to 50 mph and low relative humidity.
The most intense squalls, triggered by a rapidly cooling upper atmosphere, can have strong wind gusts, thunder and even lightning.
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Anna Skinner,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Nov. 2025
The album’s wintry electronic sound, full of guitar squalls and synth blares that slash through chasms of negative space, offers the inverse of El-P’s typically bustling style.
One version of the nation’s history anchors itself in the efforts to navigate those tempests, to better the imperfect tools bequeathed to us by imperfect men.
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Jelani Cobb,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
For now, Buttigieg has chosen to wait out the tempests in Traverse City, the hometown of his husband, Chasten, a former schoolteacher.