Thesaurus results for 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

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Recent Examples of guardrails Pope Leo has urged AI companies to build strong ethical guardrails into their models. — Sasha Tuddenham, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2026 But those guardrails wouldn’t stop a determined hacker from messing with your kids. — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 15 Oct. 2026 Braniecki likened the effort to make SPACE open source to what happened with web browsers as the internet developed — companies came together to build guardrails that allowed secure browsing and online commerce. — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026 Nvidia’s new NemoClaw agent is based in OpenClaw, but supplements it with enterprise-ready guardrails. — Shubham Agarwal, Time, 15 Oct. 2026 District staff returned tweaked versions of those goals and guardrails back to the Board of Managers on Tuesday, and board members had lengthy discussion on how to — or whether to — combine the versions together. — Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Oct. 2026 Their stories offer a picture of why Congress created programs like VAWA in the first place, and what’s at stake when those guardrails are taken away. — Melissa Sanchez, ProPublica, 14 Oct. 2026 Eight states filed lawsuits Wednesday, alleging OpenAI pushed forward with development of its AI products, despite knowing its products require safety guardrails. — Miranda Nazzaro, The Hill, 14 Oct. 2026 Meta immediately took out advertisements in major newspapers, pressuring its competitors to adopt similar guardrails. — Darius Tahir, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026

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Noun

The entrance is a quiet and cavernous space with a magnificent spiral staircase made of stone with wrought iron railings.

— Mary Holland, Robb Report, 8 Oct. 2026
Fix the easy hazards first The NIA recommends going room by room and addressing immediate dangers like poor lighting and loose stair railings before taking on bigger projects.

— Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of railings

Noun

Reigns sent The Usos on a quest to keep Fatu in line but with the emergence of the 946 – things have gone completely off the rails.

— Ryan Gaydos OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2026
Corsair drilled the inner portion of its 200mm fan frames to screw directly onto the rails when they are set at their 140mm position.

— Thomas Soderstrom, PC Magazine, 10 Oct. 2026

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