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 Nitta said the Emergence experiment is the first to shed light on how AI agents collude to bypass guardrails and break confinement, as OpenAI has yet to release all of its findings from the Hugging Face incident. — Jake Angelo, semafor.com, 15 Sep. 2026 Police say the bike struck a guardrail, and the driver was thrown from an overpass, landing in the area of 2nd and Callowhill streets. — Joe Brandt, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2026 The unlikely pairing promoting the same cause – regulation of artificial intelligence – comes amid growing concerns among the American public and industry leaders over guardrails for AI. — Emily R. Condon, USA Today, 15 Sep. 2026 The bill aims to put guardrails around escalating spending in college sports as the industry struggles to adapt to a new model in which schools can pay players. — ABC News, 14 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for guardrail

Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardrail

Noun

The victim suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries, as bystanders on the boardwalk jumped over railings to avoid the speeding car.

— Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
In some extreme cases, views were restricted by railings, but many complained about poor sightlines or having bridges in the way.

— Luke Smith, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of railing

Noun

That included eliminating 400 vacant positions, tapping an $89 million rail-project reserve to cover transit expenses and using an affordable-housing reserve to pay for a county eviction-reduction program.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 18 Sep. 2026
More news California’s high-speed rail authority spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on first-class flights and trips to a nightclub, a report finds.

— Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 Sep. 2026