setting against
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Seattle necessarily wasn’t off-track last Sunday in a 17-13 defeat at Cincinnati, going toe-to-toe in a tough setting against a team that has two consecutive AFC Conference title-game appearances.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2023
The film balances a small-town Ireland setting against big themes, crackling humour against aching pathos and casual violence against an empathetic core.
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019
"I definitely do stuff that I want to work on in a game setting against live bullets," he said.
From US News • Aug. 17, 2016
Like Salinger’s own dangling men—Holden Caulfield, Buddy and Seymour Glass—Merton set himself against phonies as a way of setting against phoniness in himself.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2015
It was around eight o’clock and the sun was finally setting against the purplish sky.
From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya
