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Recent Examples of tailwind
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.
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Reade Pickert Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 6 Jan. 2026
That’s a tailwind that’s very much in Vancouver’s favour in selling Sherwood.
—Thomas Drance, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Some investors see this as a structural tailwind that will last for years.
—Chris Russo, Sportico.com, 19 Dec. 2025
The Disney launch sets up a broad roll-out across Latin America, where the studio controls key rights, adding tailwind to the international rollout.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
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Reade Pickert Bloomberg, Arkansas Online, 6 Jan. 2026
That’s a tailwind that’s very much in Vancouver’s favour in selling Sherwood.
—Thomas Drance, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Some investors see this as a structural tailwind that will last for years.
—Chris Russo, Sportico.com, 19 Dec. 2025
The Disney launch sets up a broad roll-out across Latin America, where the studio controls key rights, adding tailwind to the international rollout.
—Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailwind
Noun
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The analyst pointed to Chinese inventory levels, which seem to have risen 15% this month versus the December 2025 average, as a headwind.—
Lisa Kailai Han,
CNBC,
8 Jan. 2026
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Leven has been more resistant to another common industry headwind — Denver’s rising minimum wage, Lygizos said.—
Max Scheinblum,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
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Additionally, hometown hero and skier Gus Kenworthy acts as host for the entire week, which features events like the blow-out White Party, a drag and burlesque show with both national and local talent, and the Glitter Ball where anything that sparkles is in fashion.—
Tiney Ricciardi,
Denver Post,
13 Jan. 2026
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George Kittle’s Achilles had popped, a devastating blow to the soul of the roster.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
13 Jan. 2026
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In Milwaukee, the Weather Service's office has issued a gale warning for Lake Michigan until midnight Monday.—
Cailey Gleeson,
jsonline.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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The Great Lakes are under storm, gale, and heavy freezing spray warnings.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
29 Dec. 2025
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Goetz appeared remarkably calm amid a swirling tornado, and multiple people, including Canty, would later comment on Goetz’s equipoise.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
21 Jan. 2026
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Measured by Doppler radar, this record overthrew the previous airborne wind speed record belonging to fellow Oklahoma town Red Rock, which recorded 286 mph winds during a tornado in 1991.—
Josh Lew,
Treehugger,
20 Jan. 2026
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An Australian Shepherd lost in a windstorm over the weekend was reunited with her distressed owner, with some help from a thermal drone.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
13 Jan. 2026
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The agency has advised residents to stay in the lower levels of their home during the windstorm and to avoid windows.—
Summer Lin,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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The breeze will build today out of the northeast at 15 to 20 mph, but gusts could reach 25 to 30 mph.—
Lissette Gonzalez,
CBS News,
20 Jan. 2026
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The cities of Punta Arenas, Chile, and Rio Gallegos, Argentina, are in the crosshairs of these muscular gusts.—
Josh Lew,
Treehugger,
20 Jan. 2026
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Winds will gust up to 35 MPH as squalls move through.—
Cutter Martin,
CBS News,
31 Dec. 2025
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Snow squalls could cause sudden whiteout conditions on interstates between the Great Lakes and Appalachians.—
Jeanine Santucci,
USA Today,
30 Dec. 2025
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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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This gripping page-turner — featuring a decades-old murder, a writer in town to tell the real story and an oncoming tempest — feels like it was ripped from the juiciest headlines.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
11 Jan. 2026
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“Tailwind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailwind. Accessed 24 Jan. 2026.
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