as in barricade
a line of people or objects that are placed around or in front of a person or place to keep people away
A cordon of police kept protesters away from the building.
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Recent Examples of cordon
Firefighters safely evacuated 29 people from neighboring properties and, as a precaution, established a 200-meter cordon with around 150 people evacuated.
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Jack Moore, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Investigators walked up and down the street, reaching into the rushing water to look for pieces of shrapnel, and some shopkeepers tried to get through the police cordon.
—Cassandra Vinograd, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Photos shared on social media show emergency service workers on the scene and a police cordon in place.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
One recent morning, at the Future Soldiers training course, hundreds of overweight young men and women hoping to join the service lined up to run and perform calisthenics before a cordon of drill sergeants.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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Jack Moore, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Investigators walked up and down the street, reaching into the rushing water to look for pieces of shrapnel, and some shopkeepers tried to get through the police cordon.
—Cassandra Vinograd, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
Photos shared on social media show emergency service workers on the scene and a police cordon in place.
—Mark Joseph, Newsweek, 24 Feb. 2025
One recent morning, at the Future Soldiers training course, hundreds of overweight young men and women hoping to join the service lined up to run and perform calisthenics before a cordon of drill sergeants.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
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“Cordon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cordon. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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