athwart

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His war aims run athwart the Napoleonic dictum: If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Standing athwart this mountain of egomania was Francis.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2025

Caivano elaborated on Washington's various interventionist economic policies, including a number of legislative and executive measures that were initially very unpopular because they seemed to run athwart the notion of a government with limited power.

From Salon • Oct. 11, 2024

The urge to stand athwart AI, yelling “stop!”

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2023

Two rats to a roller, they slipped four of these under the cinder block so that they lay athwart the hole, like bars across a window.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien