Thesaurus results for GUARDRAIL

guardrail

noun

ˈgärd-ˌrāl

Definition of guardrail

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 The top-performing red teamer on the original Arena was a lawyer from Melbourne who just happened to be good at tricking models into jumping their guardrails. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026 Basic guardrails or efforts to cap spending have been met with intense resistance. — Henry Culvyhouse, ProPublica, 19 Oct. 2026 If a skeptical Michael will take the case, Bo wants to sue his creators and get back his ethical guardrails. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2026 But those guardrails wouldn’t stop a determined hacker from messing with your kids. — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for guardrail

Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardrail

Noun

Jaxson Flynt takes a careful step into the pool, reaching for the railing to steady himself.

— Ciara McCarthy October 22, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Oct. 2026
Kip comes slamming down the stairs, this huge mass barely staying upright by repeatedly grabbing the railing just in time.

— George Saunders, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of railing

Noun

The Orient Express was a pioneering international rail service that began in 1883, but its end destination, Turkey, didn’t adopt the Gregorian calendar until more than 40 years later.

— Maureen O'Hare, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
Working with fellow researchers, Cade now has a good reason to believe the Nature report is more than likely inaccurate – the train’s rail route didn’t exist until 1846.

— Mike McRae October 15, New Atlas, 16 Oct. 2026