run up against

VERB

meet

Synonyms

STRONGEST

contact face find greet see

STRONG

accost collide confront cross encounter engage experience grapple hit light luck salute stumble tumble tussle

WEAK

brush against bump into chance on come across come up against dig up fall in with get-together make a meet meet face to face rendezvous with rub eyeballs run across run into touch shoulders

Antonyms

STRONG

avoid evade let go lose shun

WEAK

cancel dodge miss

VERB

taste

Synonyms

STRONGEST

appreciate feel savor

STRONG

encounter know perceive undergo

WEAK

be exposed to come up against have knowledge of meet with partake of

Example Sentences

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Athleta doesn’t really have as much flexibility to do that, Saunders said, since doing so might run up against selections at Gap’s other chains.

From MarketWatch • May 31, 2026

Efforts to narrow that definition, the court found, run up against those statutory protections.

From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026

The companies have run up against capacity constraints and plan to spend billions to increase their energy supplies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

Reversing that trend would run up against global economic forces far larger than any single policy dispute.

From Barron's • Dec. 22, 2025

Frank and Joe had already run up against him once on a case, when they were trying to find the missing money from a video-game competition.

From "Hopping Mad (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #4)" by Franklin W. Dixon

run up against

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