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Recent Examples of tailwindTax cuts are providing a tailwind for consumer spending and business investment, but a pullback in household demand or sustained rise in input costs may prompt companies to recalibrate by shedding hours or positions.—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 8 May 2026 Along with the costs, Kenney highlighted tighter trucking supply as a tailwind to freight conversions.—Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 Apr. 2026 Oil and gas volatility could be a tailwind for the first-ever summit of its kind, which starts Friday in the city of Santa Marta.—Fabiano Maisonnave, Bloomberg, 24 Apr. 2026 For Zima, the AI wave is Omni’s tailwind.—Lily Mae Lazarus, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tailwind
Indian and Chinese companies are ramping up overseas acquisitions amid mounting domestic economic and business headwinds.
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Tasneem Nashrulla,
semafor.com,
25 May 2026
Functional collaboration of this kind in areas so central to future planning would put the US military once again in direct symbiosis with Ukraine’s, quietly bypassing the political headwinds higher up.
Trump has effectively imposed a fuel blockade on the island by threatening tariffs on countries supplying it with fuel, igniting seemingly endless power outages and delivering new blows to the island's already ailing economy.
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Phil Stewart,
USA Today,
30 May 2026
But in 2024, voters in a number of states rejected ballot measures that would have created nonpartisan primary systems, in a significant blow to reform movements.
National Weather Service The NWS also issued a host of marine hazards, including gale warnings, high surf advisories, small craft advisories and beach hazards for most of Southern California's coastal communities.
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Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
15 May 2026
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.
The wind will flow in from the southeast, sustained around 10-20 mph with gusts as high as 25-30 mph.
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Lissette Gonzalez,
CBS News,
26 May 2026
The Storm Prediction Center says scattered severe storms are possible across southwest into south-central Texas, with threats including large hail, damaging wind gusts and a couple of isolated tornadoes through the afternoon and evening.
The latter, in particular, braids the bittersweet melodies of anorak-sporting vintage twee with ear-bleeding country-grunge that evokes Meat Puppets’ heaviest squalls.
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Colin Joyce,
Pitchfork,
1 May 2026
Political squalls are far easier to shrug off than Britain’s long-term economic problems.
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.