tailwind

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Recent Examples of tailwind The multi-year or even decade-long tailwind has to do with Cloudflare’s leadership in edge computing. Stockstory Team, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025 These are natural secular tailwinds for financials. Andy Mills, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2025 Trump faces a number of tailwinds and headwinds in his first month in office. G. Elliott Morris, ABC News, 28 Jan. 2025 Small and midsized companies are feeling good about the coming business environment, and that could be a tailwind for a seller of private jets, Textron CEO Scott Donnelly said. Pete Gannon, Axios, 22 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for tailwind
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Noun
  • With a comprehensive portfolio spanning restaurants, luxury residential kitchens, and industrial food processing, the company has continued to expand its market share despite macroeconomic headwinds.
    Joe Cornell, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
  • The tax headwind mentioned above is estimated to have a 19-cent impact to first-quarter earnings.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Spanish soccer giant Real Madrid announced a huge KO injury blow which Cope - citing anonymous sources - expects to sideline the first team starting player in question for around two months.
    Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Of course, Seidler likely didn’t envision the franchise would lose its local TV partner, dealing a financial blow.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • But those powerful gales are nothing compared to the supersonic winds that astronomers have just discovered on the giant exoplanet WASP-127b.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2025
  • According to Anderson, the combination of gale force winds and heavy snow from recent storms can cause weaker snow surfaces to collapse.
    Camila Pedrosa, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Rain — and a small chance of weak tornadoes — is coming to Southern California this week.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Be prepared to take immediate action if a tornado is sighted or a Tornado Warning is issued.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The cost of home insurance has been skyrocketing, and windstorm insurance as well.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Advertisement The plan, if approved by lawmakers, would also make $1.5 billion available in state funds to prepare for the threat of firestorms, windstorms and other natural disasters in addition to federal disaster money.
    Taryn Luna, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The storms may bring wind gusts of up to 40 mph and pea-sized hail (0.25 inches).
    CA Weather Bot, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The south wind should be a steady 9 to 15 mph, but with some gusts blowing as high as 21 mph.
    Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Regions around the Great Lakes, especially, could see cold winds and snow showers and squalls Monday night through Tuesday morning.
    Phaedra Trethan, USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Jade Jackson Snow showers have arrived in Central Indiana and are expected to remain through 8 p.m. Snow squalls are expected with Indianapolis being heavily impacted.
    Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Cuomo faces a vulnerable incumbent Adams is also seeking reelection but is facing a tempest over the criminal case against him, and the U.S. Justice Department’s extraordinary effort to end the case over the objection of the prosecutors who brought the charges.
    Anthony Izaguirre, Los Angeles Times, 1 Mar. 2025
  • Hilaria touches on the media tempest surrounding her accent, reiterating that she was raised bilingual.
    Judy Berman, TIME, 20 Feb. 2025

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“Tailwind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailwind. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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