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 At least one student was injured when a Placer County school bus carrying a girls' flag football team crashed into a concrete guardrail in Yuba County on Thursday evening, officials said. — Richard Ramos, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026 The appeal came less than 24 hours after Talwani issued a 14-day temporary restraining order blocking parts of USPS’s new rule enacting new guardrails on mail-in voting in the name of election security. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 28 Aug. 2026 That can mean funding small pilot programs, giving teams explicit room to experiment within reasonable guardrails, or simply promoting the people already finding smarter ways to work before anyone told them to. — Stacy L. Hambleton, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2026 The out-of-control Cadillac then hit a guardrail, spun around and overturned. — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 28 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for guardrail

Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardrail

Noun

Now is the time to nail down loose boards, clean debris out of gaps and tighten loose railings.

— Alora Bopray, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
Improvements would include repairing the aging triple cantilever and fixing drainage, railings and lighting.

— Elijah Westbrook, CBS News, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of railing

Noun

Contributing factors to that could be a low number of axles, like with a solo locomotive, contaminants on the rails, or rust and other conditions that cause poor wheel-to-rail connections, according to the bulletin.

— Marni Pyke, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
The Expo Line finally connected downtown to the ocean, a milestone for rail.

— Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026