Meaning of push up against | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To generate pressure on (someone or something); to challenge.
   transitive
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see push, up against.

Examples

“Beyond delivering services, Bobby brought his revolutionary nationalist theory to the job and used the opportunity to push up against the ideological bias in the government program.”

“If there’s a bar for the features and performance that make a flagship phone, well, flagshippy, then the midrange Samsung Galaxy A54 5G pushes right up against it. When this $449 device is sitting on a table next to the $999 Galaxy S23 Plus, I can barely tell the two apart until I’m close enough to pick them up.”

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