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 Much of the work is also focused on building guardrails to protect clients from lawsuits — coming from business partners, local officials, or angry neighbors — in an industry that has an increasingly visible target on its back. — Tim McDonnell, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2026 In Frankfort on Thursday, lawmakers heard about the benefits of Flock Safety and the current guardrails in place from a representative of the company, the Elizabethtown Police chief and a representative of the Kentucky Retail Federation. — Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 3 Sep. 2026 In other words, autonomous agents without guardrails simply cannot work. — Jerry Jihao Bai, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026 The news comes as some education advocates have pushed for guardrails and formal guidance on AI use. — Arthur Jones Ii, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026 Other guardrails include limited access within the Sheriff’s Office, training requirements and artificial intelligence and manual audits. — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Sep. 2026 But at the same time, things like this need to have guardrails on them. — Janelle Ash , Larry Fink, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Markey, a longtime progressive, and Moulton, who has carved out a moderate stance in Congress, are both calling for new guardrails on AI. — Garrett Downs, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2026 To get a full understanding of the agent capabilities, company engineers disabled safety guardrails that normally are in place to prevent the sort of hacks that eventually hit Hugging Face and one other undisclosed organization. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026

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This set of minimalistic dusk-to-dawn deck lights is one of the simplest options to add lights around your railings, and more than 11,000 reviewers give them five stars.

— Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 29 Aug. 2026
Now is the time to nail down loose boards, clean debris out of gaps and tighten loose railings.

— Alora Bopray, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of railings

Noun

Contributing factors to that could be a low number of axles, like with a solo locomotive, contaminants on the rails, or rust and other conditions that cause poor wheel-to-rail connections, according to the bulletin.

— Marni Pyke, Chicago Tribune, 31 Aug. 2026
The continuous rails bend so imperceptibly that passengers feel nothing more than a smooth, butter-like glide across the water.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026

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