as in railings
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 guardrails
Then there are authors like Rachel Harrison, Gwendolyn Kiste and Hailey Piper who take the experiences and rage of simply being a woman and use the guardrails of horror to create something wholly new.
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Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Over and over, representatives declared that AI was not sci-fi but a fact of modern life, and that international regulatory guardrails needed to be developed immediately, especially around autonomous weapons and nuclear.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Newsom has been under pressure in recent years to adopt AI guardrails by advocates worried about the technology’s impact on unemployment by automating jobs and upending creative and media industries via its ability to generate new pictures, audio and other media using existing data.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 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, 25 Sep. 2025
And this is a problem, especially given that there aren’t guardrails or parental controls preventing youth from viewing this content.
—Mallary Tenore Tarpley, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
For those who closely watched SB 1047’s passage and veto, SB 53 is a second act in a continuing story about balancing guardrails with growth.
—The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
Earlier this summer, Prinstein and his colleagues at the APA put out a health advisory about AI and teens, urging AI companies to build guardrails for their platforms to protect adolescents.
—Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
This establishes guardrails and access controls for AI systems that protect against unauthorized access to sensitive data, both by humans and the AI itself.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
Over and over, representatives declared that AI was not sci-fi but a fact of modern life, and that international regulatory guardrails needed to be developed immediately, especially around autonomous weapons and nuclear.
—Andrew R. Chow, Time, 26 Sep. 2025
Newsom has been under pressure in recent years to adopt AI guardrails by advocates worried about the technology’s impact on unemployment by automating jobs and upending creative and media industries via its ability to generate new pictures, audio and other media using existing data.
—Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 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, 25 Sep. 2025
And this is a problem, especially given that there aren’t guardrails or parental controls preventing youth from viewing this content.
—Mallary Tenore Tarpley, USA Today, 22 Sep. 2025
For those who closely watched SB 1047’s passage and veto, SB 53 is a second act in a continuing story about balancing guardrails with growth.
—The Ai Insider, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
Earlier this summer, Prinstein and his colleagues at the APA put out a health advisory about AI and teens, urging AI companies to build guardrails for their platforms to protect adolescents.
—Rhitu Chatterjee, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
This establishes guardrails and access controls for AI systems that protect against unauthorized access to sensitive data, both by humans and the AI itself.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for guardrails
Noun
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Six of its wooden bridges, stairs, signs, hand railings and an observation deck were destroyed in the 2008 Basin Complex Fire.—
Paul Rogers,
Mercury News,
19 Sep. 2025
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Some perky-looking musical notes, in brass, were affixed to railings.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Stripe brings fraud prevention, global payment rails, and a vast merchant network, making the new Agentic Commerce Protocol (ACP) usable by millions of businesses right out of the gate.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
30 Sep. 2025
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With the match feeling ready to veer off the rails, European vice captain Edoardo Molinari and Mike Raby, the referee assigned to the match, were seen having lengthy discussions about how to retain order.—
Brendan Quinn,
New York Times,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Guardrails.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardrails. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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