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noun

plural of barricade

as in barriers

a physical object that blocks the way the police put up barricades to block off the parade route

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verb

present tense third-person singular of barricade

as in guards

to disallow entry into (a place) by means of a physical barrier at the entry point the city barricaded the flooded streets to through traffic

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Officers in riot gear clashed with youths who set up street barricades using burning trash bins. — ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026 Low-lying roadways are likely to be flooded, requiring barricades. — Nc Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 11 Oct. 2026 Public Works is preparing for 24-hour operations, monitoring low-water crossings, dams, roadways, debris and traffic signals while staging barricades for potential road closures. — Jacob Beltran, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Sep. 2026 There are plenty of barricades built with the explicit goal of keeping certain types of artists from access ing those rooms. — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 29 Sep. 2026 Even the barricades of the Paris Commune in the finale are little more than bloodied background color. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026 Hardy’s lawsuit said the barricades were off to the side of the street and weren’t blocking the road. — Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2026 If the story of women’s liberation is often told as one long unlacing of the corset, an early salvo came from the French barricades. — Jennifer Wilson, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026 Farmers blocked the highways leading into the city while demonstrators erected barricades throughout Cochabamba, occupied the central plaza, and halted transportation and commerce. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Aug. 2026

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The vigilante gets to Tappen and barricades the two of them in a hospital room, where a vicious brawl ensues. — Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 2 May 2026 To keep her family at bay, Alexandra barricades herself in her Brooklyn brownstone with enough Molotov cocktails to blow up the whole block. — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Apr. 2026 Masahiro Motoki — the Oscar-winning star of Departures — plays a lord who rebels against warlord Oda Nobunaga and barricades himself inside Arioka Castle, only to face a string of unsolved murders within its walls. — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 18 Mar. 2026

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Both promise to boost supply chain resilience — be that against climate change or geopolitical unrest — but face significant barriers to scale.

— Bella Webb, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2026
The harder tasks are to integrate capital markets, reduce regulatory differences between member states, and dismantle barriers to cross-border investment and commerce.

— Claas Mertens, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026

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Along with Adebayo, guards Pelle Larsson (illness) and Dru Smith (right calf strain) weren’t available for the Heat on Wednesday.

— Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 15 Oct. 2026
The router comes with Advanced Router Protection, which guards your router, and a 30-day trial for Netgear Armor Security.

— George Yang, PC Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026

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From elevating beds to expanding sections to sliding walls and even entire roofs, these 10 homes transform to get maximum use out of a compact space.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Oct. 2026
Frosted glass walls reveal a garden of oversize, colorful leather flowers, while wood and leather, recurring materials in Polène’s stores, appear in the furnishings.

— Ryma Chikhoune, Footwear News, 16 Oct. 2026

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