react against

phrasal verb

reacted against; reacting against; reacts against

: to do things that are opposed to (something or someone that one disagrees with)

a group of artists who react against traditional ideas

Examples of react against in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Head coach Andy Reid of the Kansas City Chiefs reacts against the Houston Texans during the third quarter in the AFC Divisional Playoff at GEHA Field on Saturday. —David K. Li, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025

An allergic reaction to milk happens when the immune system reacts against proteins in the milk, such as casein and whey. —Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025

From the late nineteenth century onward, there had been a churning succession of modernist movements, each reacting against the last and proposing its own answers to fundamental questions about what art should be. —Dean Kissick, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024

Gotta admits some readers have reacted against some of the challenges encountered. —Michael J. Williams, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Feb. 2024

Thanks to differences in antigens, if someone receives incompatible blood from a donor, for example, the recipient’s immune system may detect those antigens as foreign and react against them. —Chris Baraniuk, WIRED, 4 Oct. 2022

Galliano’s designs react against the mass production of fashion by focusing on complex tailoring that can only be done by hand rather than machine. —TIME, 17 Apr. 2024

Designers are always innovating from and reacting against what came before, and new visionaries are cropping up all the time and fighting for a place in the canon. —José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2024

May, 2021, just gave a glimpse of how the Israeli state and society can react against Palestinian citizens in these moments. —Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2023

Rhymes for react against

• recommenced
• recompensed
• commenced
• condensed
• dispensed
• expensed
• incensed
• unfenced
• fenced
• sensed
• tensed