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headwind

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headwind
a wind blowing directly against the course of an aircraft or ship


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I knew there was going to be a headwind so I wasn't really worried about the time.
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The runners had to contend with a ferocious headwind, and when a threeway battle for the lead developed between Rievaulx World, Strike Up The Band and Judd Street, Winston sensibly decided to seek shelter from the gusts by slipstreaming the leaders.
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It's a peculiar idiom, in that "secular" is typically used to identify something as nonreligious--and God knows (cue rimshot) there's nothing particularly spiritual about a headwind in the first place.
Just a phrase we're going through by Gearino, G.D. / Business North Carolina
 
 
 
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