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
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
In this situation, it is especially important to have the pope standing athwart the divide with an unwavering call to uphold human dignity and serve the common good.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 28, 2021
In 2021, Sacks finds himself standing athwart history in Silicon Valley without his fellow PayPal dons.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2021
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
Vocabulary lists containing athwart
Much Ado About Nothing
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The Wind in the Willows
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