strike against

noun

chiefly US

: something that makes someone or something less likely to be accepted, approved, successful, etc.

Her poor attendance was a strike against her.

Examples of strike against in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Yesterday, more than 50,000 Minneapolis residents joined a peaceful general strike against this authoritarian overreach. —Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 24 Jan. 2026

One of Iran’s most recent threats came from Mohammad-Javad Larijani, a former senior adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khomeini, during the 12 Day War last year, threatening a drone strike against the president at Mar-a-Lago. —Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 21 Jan. 2026

The immediate risk of a US strike against Iran appeared to wane, which, alongside the suppression of nationwide protests, suggested that the immediate threat to the regime in Tehran had faded. —Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 16 Jan. 2026

Twenty-three years ago, in December 2002, Fortune dispatched me to the Venezuelan capital to report on a national strike against Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez. —Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for strike against

• commenced
• condensed
• dispensed
• expensed
• incensed
• unfenced
• fenced
• sensed
• tensed
• recommenced
• recompensed