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Recent Examples of tailwind
While payrolls could slow further in 2025, multiple sizable contractions in monthly payrolls seem unlikely given the high number of job openings in the U.S. economy and other positive labor market data providing tailwinds for the year ahead.
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Jason Schenker, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
This significant underperformance in a company with such strong tailwinds can only mean an extreme lack of confidence in management – and for good reason.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2024
The economy faces a complex set of tailwinds and headwinds next year.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
Each residence has been carefully positioned at different angles along the front row, creating a sense of movement, as though each building has been swept along in the tailwind of the cars speeding past.
—Adam Williams, New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2024
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Jason Schenker, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
This significant underperformance in a company with such strong tailwinds can only mean an extreme lack of confidence in management – and for good reason.
—Kenneth Squire, CNBC, 21 Dec. 2024
The economy faces a complex set of tailwinds and headwinds next year.
—Courtenay Brown, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
Each residence has been carefully positioned at different angles along the front row, creating a sense of movement, as though each building has been swept along in the tailwind of the cars speeding past.
—Adam Williams, New Atlas, 17 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tailwind
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In fact, the US wasn’t mentioned at all during the 27-minute video — perhaps a reflection of the strong headwinds EVs are facing under the incoming Trump administration.Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025
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Michael Jackson’s fifth solo album and first with veteran producer Quincy Jones, however, was just too good to be slowed down by the cultural headwinds, and became the first album by a solo artist to send four singles into the Top Ten of the Hot 100.Al Shipley, SPIN, 16 Jan. 2025
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As such, this will likely be a blow because the country accounted for 50% of global oil demand growth between 2000 and 2023, averaging an annual increase of 518,000 bpd, according to the Energy Institute's 2024 Statistical Review of World Energy.Gaurav Sharma, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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Likewise, a surprise 25 basis point rate cut by the BOK at its November meeting, enacted before Yoon declared martial law in December, could have cushioned the blow.Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 10 Jan. 2025
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Supersonic gales blow at 1,200 miles per hour, around five times faster than the strongest gusts ever measured on Earth.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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A bit more like those Newcastle fans who grace our screens every now and then, unfazed by the coldest gales.Caoimhe O'Neill, The Athletic, 19 Dec. 2024
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Across the country, police have for decades been pressed into crisis response duty during wildfires, earthquakes, hurricanes and tornadoes.Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
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Lund described the fire tornado as a response to the weather rather than its own event.Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
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Monday Santa Ana winds will peak Wednesday and be followed by new windstorm Monday Man who procured guns, ammo for Sinaloa Cartel sentenced to nearly 20 years Tom Krasovic: Padres’ standing with Roki Sasaki a credit to A.J. Preller, Peter Seidler IRS is sending out automatic stimulus payments.Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
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The Eaton Fire is one of several blazes to break out during Tuesday and Wednesday's Santa Ana windstorm, which struck during a severe drought, authorities said.Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2025
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In one, five women in white hanbok, carrying bundles of white laundry on their heads, form a tight, diagonal spiral (in response to gusts of wind?) against dark fields of grass and cropland.E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2025
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The wind — with some northerly wind gusts expected above 20 mph — should also be a factor.Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 17 Jan. 2025
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Michigan winter storm radar:Snow squalls, winds could make road conditions dangerous Coming in at No. 1 on the list was Valdez, Alaska, which has an average yearly snowfall of 325.3 inches.Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 12 Dec. 2024
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The coldest time of the season will occur during the final week of January into the beginning of February, bringing heavy snow showers and squalls east of the Great Lakes region.Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2024
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As countries and tech giants jockey for position, the geopolitical tempest that ensues may overshadow the transformative potential of the technology.Reva Goujon, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024
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Scientists are scratching their heads over what drives these powerful tempests.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Tailwind.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tailwind. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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