set against

verb

1. to balance or compare

   to set a person's faults against his virtues

2. to cause to be hostile or unfriendly to

Idioms and Phrases

Be or cause someone to be opposed to, as in Civil wars often set brother against brother, or The police chief's critics were set against his officers. [Late 1200s] Also see dead set against.

Example Sentences

All the above is set against a backdrop of paranoia, a common feature of this type of dementia.

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It would also be set against a big jump in the market’s benchmark volatility gauge, the Cboe Group’s VIX index, which has risen more than 37% so far this month and suggests daily swings of around 100 points for the S&P 500 over the next month.

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It would also be set against a big jump in the market’s benchmark volatility gauge, the Cboe Group’s VIX index, which has risen more than 37% so far this month and suggests daily swings of around 100 points for the S&P 500 over the next month.

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When Agar went past 95, he beat Tino Best's record for the highest score by a number 11, set against England at Edgbaston a year earlier.

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The sale is fairly insignificant when set against Nvidia’s market capitalization of around $4.8 trillion, but comes in the run up to the chip maker’s earnings on Nov. 19 and amid a debate about potentially stretched valuations for companies linked to the artificial-intelligence boom.

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Related Words

• analyze 
• contrast 
• correlate 
• equal 
• match 
• measure 
• study