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: a post of metal or wood on a wharf around which to fasten mooring lines
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chiefly British
: any of a series of short posts set at intervals to delimit an area (such as a traffic island) or to exclude vehicles
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Crews began raising an initial bollard wall across the San Rafael Valley south of Sonoita in September, drawing protesters who want to maintain both cultural and ecological ties across a key jaguar and ocelot migration corridor spanning the Huachuca and Patagonia mountain ranges.
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Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
The report cited a Pentagon request to Congress in late May to reprogram $200 million in funds approved for worldwide military construction projects to construct a 30-foot-high steel bollard barrier along a 20-mile stretch of the border near Yuma, Arizona.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2025
Security footage also captured the incident, including Holliday allegedly getting out of his car and securing the rope to the parking bollard and his dog’s neck.
—Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
The model of the quarry revealed 426 moai in various stages of completion, 341 trenches cut to outline blocks for carving, and 133 voids in the rock where statues were successfully removed, plus five bollards that acted as anchor points for lowering moai down slopes.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
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Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 13 Dec. 2025
The report cited a Pentagon request to Congress in late May to reprogram $200 million in funds approved for worldwide military construction projects to construct a 30-foot-high steel bollard barrier along a 20-mile stretch of the border near Yuma, Arizona.
—Luis Martinez, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2025
Security footage also captured the incident, including Holliday allegedly getting out of his car and securing the rope to the parking bollard and his dog’s neck.
—Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025
The model of the quarry revealed 426 moai in various stages of completion, 341 trenches cut to outline blocks for carving, and 133 voids in the rock where statues were successfully removed, plus five bollards that acted as anchor points for lowering moai down slopes.
—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
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“Bollard.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bollard. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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bollard
noun
bol·lard
ˈbäl-ərd 
: a post of metal or wood on a wharf around which to fasten mooring lines
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