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
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
Competing for attention on an adjacent stage was a loudmouthed showman in coattails and a large, prehistoric-looking creature whose gray skin hung from its frame in cascading wrinkles.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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