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Recent Examples of tailwind
Venture and growth investors spent 2025 and early 2026 repricing clean as a durable category rather than a wellness fad, helped by an unusual regulatory tailwind.
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Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
The drop in oil prices is a tailwind for stocks, but until the conflict is settled, the Middle East turmoil remains a risk.
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John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
Had history caught a different tailwind, those crêpe shops might have been fish and chips joints.
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Caitlin Gunther,
Condé Nast Traveler,
19 June 2026
Sud credits this outsize growth to favorable industry tailwinds, but noted that the strategy for scaling has changed.
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Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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Josipa Majic Predin,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
The drop in oil prices is a tailwind for stocks, but until the conflict is settled, the Middle East turmoil remains a risk.
—
John Towfighi,
CNN Money,
19 June 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
Sud credits this outsize growth to favorable industry tailwinds, but noted that the strategy for scaling has changed.
—
Jeff John Roberts,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailwind
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Although regulatory barriers and equipment bottlenecks were also identified as headwinds, neither of them was bad enough to cancel ongoing or proposed projects.
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Volkswagen's challenges are illustrative of the headwinds facing the broader European automotive industry, Luman said, citing challenges on the road to full electrification, competition with Chinese car brands and export problems in major markets.
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Hers is a voice that ought to have a lifetime’s staying power, bolstered by a lyrical and musical sensibility that provide everything her instrument needs to deliver a happy succession of knockout blows.
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Kyiv’s forces have especially targeted supplies to Crimea, triggering the worst fuel crisis on the Black Sea peninsula since it was illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 and delivering a blow to the Kremlin’s narrative that Moscow is winning the war.
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The United States is also facing gale-force productivity headwinds, such as the aging of the population and the relentlessly rising cost of health care, education, and housing.
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His football outing on ITV was perfectly good value, even if there was the near-instant karma of an off-camera Brooklyn gale threatening to blow the set down.
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Forecasters are also tracking severe thunderstorms across parts of the Midwest, Northeast and mid-Atlantic that could bring damaging winds, isolated tornadoes and flash flooding, potentially affecting holiday travel and evening fireworks displays.
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Through July 4, there is also a risk of hail, lightning, severe thunderstorm wind gusts and tornadoes in the Northeast and northern Mid-Atlantic westward to the Plains region.
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Forecasters expect a strong windstorm beginning Friday in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico.
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Bass accused Crowley of leadership failures during the January 2025 windstorm that led to the deadly Palisades fire, and also accused her of refusing to prepare an after-action report on the firefight.
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Residents may experience wind gusts of up to 40 mph.
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Winds are forecasted to be southwest winds 20 to 25 mph with gusts to 30 mph are possible Friday and Saturday and humidity 5 to 15% Friday and Saturday.
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Cold rain fell in an endless drizzle, broken only by harder squalls.
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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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You're used to a bit of spontaneity, but this tempest is going to draw extra frustrations around your income, finances, or money matters.
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SpaceX, privately held, was insulated from that PR tempest.
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“Tailwind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailwind. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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