coattails
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Bellingham said other wind farms were now riding "the coattails of Monsoon", with one Laos official pointing to 10 to 15 projects under development nationwide.
From Barron's ● Nov. 1, 2026
Over the years he has carried many Workers’ Party candidates on his coattails.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
In a market where sometimes tenuous links spell big moves for stocks, the Super Bowl halftime performance from Bad Bunny failed to produce coattails.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 9, 2026
The movie had to be made close enough to the album’s release that it could ride the coattails of the record’s popularity until the “Brat”-green wheels fell off.
From Salon ● Feb. 8, 2026
The argument went on that way with Strauss saying that Nemur had his eye on the Chair of Psychology at Hallston, and Nemur saying that Strauss was riding on the coattails of his psychological research.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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