tailwinds

plural of tailwind

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailwinds
Noun
  • According to Martins, being diversified helps buttress the company against macro headwinds, and the various business units of JHSF share many of the same customers.
    David Moin, Footwear News, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Layoffs can occur for many reasons; while they can be viewed as a signal about how companies view economic headwinds, the reasons may also be more localized to individual companies amid restructuring or plans to maximize profits.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The assailant stopped mid-speech and delivered two blows straight to Antao’s face.
    Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Large companies can absorb the blows, but the dry cleaner, toy importer, or family-run retailer cannot.
    Jacob Bennett, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The threat of thunderstorms, gales, and violent lightning led to the cancellation of the final day of SailGP competition in Saint-Tropez.
    Andrew Rice, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Southern China also shuts down Southern China’s Hainan Island saw heavy rainfall and gales as the typhoon brushed past the island on Sunday.
    Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 25 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Life-changing weather events like the 1998 tornadoes, the 2010 flood and 2020 tornadoes.
    Nicole Young, Nashville Tennessean, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Throughout his career, Zilber helped plant millions of trees and was a part of the state's response efforts for severe weather events, including wildfires, floods and tornadoes.
    Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Sustained, strong winds with even stronger gusts are happening.
    CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Winds have decreased to 5 mph or less, but are expected to increase again throughout the day, reaching 15 to 20 mph out of the west-southwest, with gusts up to 25 mph possible.
    Hanna Park, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • When its winds reach 74 mph, the storm officially becomes a hurricane.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • With maximum sustained winds of 90 mph, the hurricane is moving east-northeast at 30 mph.
    MIAMI HERALD HURRICANE BOT, Miami Herald, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Tailwinds.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailwinds. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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