coattails

Example Sentences

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Next is competition — Rival food companies quickly rolled out their own plant-based fares to try to ride Beyond Meat’s coattails.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 12, 2026

Presidents typically carry in on their coattails a bunch of their party’s candidates in marginal seats.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 28, 2026

Other IT consulting companies rode on the stock’s coattails Wednesday.

From Barron's • Jan. 14, 2026

“The other thing is the resiliency and the availability of the infrastructure. Cloud providers have designed and architected their infrastructure really well. We can ride on the coattails of their innovation.”

From BBC • Jun. 27, 2024

“Many coattails were wrinkled by Sandy Pittman latching on to them,” says a former business associate of Mr. Pittman who insisted on anonymity.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer