set against
Upper Intermediate (B2) neutral
To make someone dislike or oppose something, or to balance one thing against another when calculating costs.
"The campaign deliberately set local residents against the new development."
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tradition set against the stunning
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was dead set against any Spanish intervention.
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then set against the northern wall, they