as in railing
a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports the car ran off the road, but fortunately only hit the guardrail

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Recent Examples of guardrail Though the state of Missouri has passed some bills expanding hours and permissions for businesses and vendors, some cities are also passing their own guardrails on bars, food trucks and other tourist-friendly spaces. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025 That means integrating models into full workflows—editing, guardrails, translation, versioning, collaboration, distribution, and analytics. Victor Riparbelli, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025 As part of this, internal deployment should be treated with the same care as external deployment, and rigorous assessments and evaluations to identify dangerous capabilities, the establishment of clear risk profiles, and required control or guardrail mechanisms prior to usage should be encouraged . Yoshua Bengio, Time, 22 Oct. 2025 When stopping by the roadside is your only option, position your vehicle as far off the road as possible, ideally beyond guardrails. Bay Area Weather Report, Mercury News, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for guardrail
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Noun
  • The daughter lost her balance and fell backwards off the railing into the ocean.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten , Adriana James-Rodil, FOXNews.com, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Take them outdoors, hang them over a railing, and whack them with a broom handle or similar tool.
    Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Many of them took to the roads and rails, freaking out elite and middle-class white Protestants, who generally viewed married, settled life as the foundation of a successful society.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The General Assembly has given Mecklenburg County permission to put a referendum on the ballot to raise the county’s sales tax to fund road, rail and bus projects.
    Nick Sullivan, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025

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“Guardrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardrail. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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