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

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

By 2016, these hotel gyms had now become boutiques to Kohli's fitness regime, and the rest of the team followed on his coattails.

From BBC • May 12, 2025

When I looked at Uncle Willie, I knew what was pulling my mind’s coattails.

From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou