run up against
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: to experience (something difficult)
She has run up against a lot of opposition.
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Metropolitans 92 could make a deep run in the playoffs and their games could run up against the NBA draft, scheduled for June 22.
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oregonlive, 10 May 2023
Stimpson acknowledged that the bill could run up against opposition in the supermajority Republican Legislature that, less than a year ago, advanced a permitless carry measure that was opposed by a bipartisan group of sheriffs and police chiefs.
—al, 30 Jan. 2023
The efforts to narrow L.A.’s extra-wide streets — notoriously difficult and dangerous for pedestrians to cross — sometimes run up against municipal requirements for emergency-vehicle access.
—Curbed, 20 May 2022
The grand idea has been around for decades—and has always run up against daunting technical, economic and political barriers.
—Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
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oregonlive, 10 May 2023
Stimpson acknowledged that the bill could run up against opposition in the supermajority Republican Legislature that, less than a year ago, advanced a permitless carry measure that was opposed by a bipartisan group of sheriffs and police chiefs.
—al, 30 Jan. 2023
The efforts to narrow L.A.’s extra-wide streets — notoriously difficult and dangerous for pedestrians to cross — sometimes run up against municipal requirements for emergency-vehicle access.
—Curbed, 20 May 2022
The grand idea has been around for decades—and has always run up against daunting technical, economic and political barriers.
—Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
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“Run up against.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/run%20up%20against. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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