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 120 year-old staircase was also retained, with only the railings on its landing built to match.

— Nuriyah Johar, Architectural Digest, 16 Oct. 2026
Most were gleaming white and conventionally extravagant, with black privacy glass and chrome railings and layers of decks.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of railings

Noun

Perhaps lenders have grown tired of funding the data center buildout, but money is not going to be the thing that finally causes the AI train to go off the rails.

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Yes; the property features elevators, a variety of accessible common areas, and accessible guest rooms with bathtub grab rails, lowered electrical outlets, flashing door knockers, and more.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 15 Oct. 2026

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