Synonyms of guardrails

guardrails

noun

plural of guardrail

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• railings
• rails
• balustrades
• banisters
• handrails
• fenders
• taffrails

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of guardrails

Both groups back some degree of guardrails and even overlap in areas like the need to protect children online. — Emily Wilkins, CNBC, 9 July 2026

If the executive branch continues expanding its equity investments, Congress should establish clear statutory guardrails governing ownership, oversight, disclosure, and operational independence before those holdings become much larger. — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

With no way to enforce this crucial boundary between trusted and untrusted sources, AI engine developers are left to erect elaborate guardrails designed to mitigate the damage rather than solve the root cause. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026

But the plan glossed over student use of AI and key guardrails around critical thinking. — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 8 July 2026

Very similar to what occurred following the rocky and free for all rollout of OpenAI‘s now scrapped Sora, Creative Artists Agency are looking for Meta to put guardrails in the foreground. — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 8 July 2026

Here’s why some Republicans are urgently calling for a special session to establish guardrails. — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 2 July 2026

But the next governor of Florida could play a key role in determining the extent to which there are guardrails around the industry, and the spending makes clear who the political action committees and their donors see as their best bet for governor. — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 2 July 2026

But with open source models, these classifiers can easily be stripped away and the guardrails that might be trained into a model can also easily be jailbroken. — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 2 July 2026