coattails
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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
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
“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
It was big black Loomis, Queenie’s husband, six feet six and three hundred pounds, hat on and coattails flapping.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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