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 Meta immediately took out advertisements in major newspapers, pressuring its competitors to adopt similar guardrails. — Darius Tahir, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 During a Monday New York City Council hearing, representatives from OpenAI, Google, Meta and Anthropic were asked to assure under oath whether AI agents will always comply with safety guardrails to prevent catastrophic harm. — Staff, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 Not only are those objectively terrible ideas, but chains of title put guardrails on what studios can do with many iconic characters. — Brent Lang, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2026 Important-sounding acronyms are batted about to suggest internal guardrails — like MSI (Meaningful Social Interactions), CIT (Civic Integrity Team) or SATF (Soft Action Task Force). — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 7 Oct. 2026 The guardrails OpenAI put in place to protect teens don’t seem to be working, according to a new report. — Ella Chakarian, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026 Anthropic wanted to put guardrails around how the military could use its technology; defense officials did not agree. — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026 But now, Democrats are increasingly messaging on the issue as well, bringing the technology into a broader push to place guardrails on emerging technologies and limit access to people’s personal information. — Hailey Bullis, The Washington Examiner, 6 Oct. 2026 The market has changed at warp speed, but our guardrails haven’t kept up. — Lindsay Owens, Washington Post, 1 Oct. 2026

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Noun

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
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

Definition of railings

Noun

Walls, backsplash areas and the space beneath upper cabinets rarely get treated as storage, even though rails, pegboards, magnetic strips, floating shelves and hanging baskets can absorb a meaningful share of what currently sits on the counter.

— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Miami Herald, 1 Oct. 2026
The process to assemble one of the country’s largest rails-to-trails corridors took about two decades, spanning four mayoral administrations.

— Zachary Hansen, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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