See hit up against on Wiktionary
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"text": "Our economic growth model will eventually hit up against hard ecological constraints.",
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"text": "It's only a matter of time until their deluded sense of entitlement hits up against reality.",
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"ref": "2012 September 11, Ray Fisman, “Don't Ban Big Gulps”, in Slate, archived from the original on 2023-06-06:",
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"ref": "2017 December 19, Tiernan Ray, “Apple: Time to Bail, Stock Up Against Historically High Multiples, Says Instinet”, in Barron's, archived from the original on 2022-11-27:",
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"ref": "2023 July 11, Myra Butterworth, “Rental hotspots revealed: The regional cities and London areas where rents are shooting up in an 'urban revival'”, in Daily Mail, archived from the original on 2023-08-10:",
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