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View definitions for work against

work against

verb as in antagonize

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One platform, Redalyc, is determined to ignore the metrics that work against small, noncommercial journals.

“We also should consider that most of Trump’s wealth is tied to real estate, so it’s highly unlikely that he would implement policies that would work against his own bottom line.”

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Trump’s proposed policies to drastically increase tariffs and begin mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, however, could work against those interests.

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Speaking to reporters in Nantucket, Mass. on Thanksgiving, Biden said the move would work against any attempts to rein in inflation.

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Law and Hoult give emotionally detailed, deeply felt performances that partly work against type, while the film’s unblinking portrait of the seductive, corrosive power of hate gives it a power that rises above a typical cat-and-mouse policier.

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