go against
Britishverb
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to be contrary to (principles or beliefs)
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to be unfavourable to (a person)
the case went against him
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In an interview at a Panorama City campaign event last week, she pointed to her own beginnings as a young organizer, and said she knows what it’s like to go against the status quo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Hartnett doesn’t just collect the data, he parses it, and his instinct is to go against the current.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
When things go against you, leverage is a curse, not a blessing, as anyone who was on the wrong side of the housing crash nearly two decades ago knows.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 14, 2026
That they had in some way been instructed to go against their natural instincts.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
A man in the store had said, “I don’t think you’d round up a mob so easy to go against him if it was a matter between Trav Burdow and the Creightons this year.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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