athwart
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It would be easier to argue that the best defense against entropy is to stand athwart any change in taste and manners, as Plato advised in the “Republic.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 9, 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
The urge to stand athwart AI, yelling “stop!”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2023
They stand athwart history, spewing a venomous lie that has claimed too many lives.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2022
We marched up athwart a hillock toward the house, Olakunde beating our step to better impress upon the inhabitants our seriousness of purpose.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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