coattails
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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
Other IT consulting companies rode on the stock’s coattails Wednesday.
From Barron's ● Jan. 14, 2026
The outsize stake is unusual for a buyout, where sovereign-wealth funds would typically ride on the coattails of traditional private-equity firms as minority investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 2, 2025
“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
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