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Recent Examples of tailwind
Rookie running back Kyle Monangai highlighted the grit and belief of this year’s squad as core traits that should provide at least some tailwind heading into next season.
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Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
With multiple tailwinds still in play, though, the conversation has largely shifted from whether to invest in silver to how best to gain exposure to this momentum.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2026
The expansion arrives with serious commercial tailwinds.
—Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 13 Jan. 2026
But looking ahead, abating tariff uncertainty and the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are anticipated to offer a tailwind to capital expenditures this year.
—Reade Pickert Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 6 Jan. 2026
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Dan Wiederer, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2026
With multiple tailwinds still in play, though, the conversation has largely shifted from whether to invest in silver to how best to gain exposure to this momentum.
—Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2026
The expansion arrives with serious commercial tailwinds.
—Ritu Upadhyay, Footwear News, 13 Jan. 2026
But looking ahead, abating tariff uncertainty and the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are anticipated to offer a tailwind to capital expenditures this year.
—Reade Pickert Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 6 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailwind
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Funding the Time Lord No decision more neatly demonstrates the nasty headwinds facing scripted than Disney pulling out of the Doctor Who deal with the BBC, BBC Studios and Bad Wolf after just two seasons.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
9 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, any jitters in China are only playing into wider questions about whether investors should be hedging themselves against headwinds to the dollar.—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
9 Feb. 2026
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Case considered a blow to Hong Kong media Lai founded Apple Daily in 1995, two years before Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule after 156 years as a British colony.—
Kanis Leung,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Liverpool were their own worst enemy as their hopes of Champions League qualification suffered another blow.—
James Pearce,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Beginning in Anchorage and finishing in Nome, competitors race through blizzards, sub-zero temperatures and gale force winds in a racing event that crosses through a rugged landscape of tundra and spruce forests, over hills and mountain passes, across rivers and even over sea ice.—
Jack Bantock,
CNN Money,
3 Feb. 2026
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Nor'easters nearly always bring precipitation in the form of heavy rain or snow, as well as gale-force winds, rough seas, and, occasionally, coastal flooding.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
28 Jan. 2026
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Cannon established Coppermark and almost immediately reached out to Stephanie Lee, a roofing contractor and independent adjuster with extensive experience in hail, wind, and tornado damage.—
J.C. Hallman,
Oklahoman,
10 Feb. 2026
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Since reliable record-keeping for Austin weather began in the late 1890s, the region has experienced February temperatures ranging from 99 degrees in 1996, to below zero degrees in 1899, along with heavy snowfalls, destructive tornadoes and large hail.—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Austin American Statesman,
7 Feb. 2026
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Remain in the lower levels of your home during the windstorm and avoid windows and overhanging trees.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Feb. 2026
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In December, while refining his routine for his first Olympic Games, in Milan, the 21-year-old figure skater landed seven quadruple jumps in competition, spinning like a weather vane in a windstorm.—
Sally Jenkins,
The Atlantic,
1 Feb. 2026
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Over the weekend, gusts of 50 to 73 mph were recorded on the islands, with the strongest winds downwind of the higher terrain, through valleys, and in other local acceleration areas.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Wind gusts up to 35 mph at lake level, with gusts reaching up to 70 mph along the Sierra crest.—
Bay Area Weather Report,
Mercury News,
10 Feb. 2026
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Snow squalls can come up on drivers suddenly and can lead to near zero visibility within minutes.—
Bill Kelly,
CBS News,
6 Feb. 2026
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Stunningly losing your quarterback 60 minutes from the Super Bowl isn’t a squall.—
Parker Gabriel,
Denver Post,
24 Jan. 2026
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The catalyst of the looming tempest is the Morton Amphitheater, which will open this summer in Riverside with 30 or more concerts already on the schedule.—
Dan Kelly,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2026
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New motherhood is always a maelstrom, but the new new motherhood, it has lately been suggested, has become a tempest of a different, close-to-unbearable order.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
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“Tailwind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailwind. Accessed 13 Feb. 2026.
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