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 Ensuring high-quality, bias-free training data; implementing real-time feedback loops; and applying guardrails like reinforcement learning from human feedback and confidence scoring can significantly improve AI co-pilots. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 5 May 2025 Then, a passing car coming from the left lane hit the back of the Honda and fatally struck the girl before running off the roadway and into a guardrail, police said. Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 5 May 2025 Gemini has specific guardrails for younger users to hinder the chatbot from producing certain unsafe content, said Karl Ryan, a Google spokesman. Natasha Singer, New York Times, 2 May 2025 Creating and reinforcing guardrails around AI is a mission that Crabtree-Ireland connects with personally, as deepfake videos of him began circulating in 2023 at the height of the labor strife and amid the unsettling arrival of ChatGPT. Dade Hayes, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for guardrail
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Noun
  • Brunson would hop over the railing to confront Haliburton and ultimately set up an intense moment in front of the screaming New York-partisan crowd.
    Jason Jones, New York Times, 20 May 2025
  • The fall occurred Thursday afternoon from the apartment's private balcony, which has protective glass, not a railing, according to Montgomery County police spokesperson Shiera Goff.
    Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 16 May 2025
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  • This is particularly common in how many in the US discuss stablecoins, with commentary on the subject often comparing it to old correspondent banking rails and nothing else.
    Daniel Webber, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • One of the scarier parts of the last few weeks has been this idea that Trump has become totally unbound, even from the few things that kept him on the rails in the first term, such as public opinion and the stock market.
    Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 May 2025

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“Guardrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardrail. Accessed 25 May. 2025.

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