as in fence
a physical object that blocks the way
the police put up barricades to block off the parade route
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as in to guard
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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Recent Examples of barricade
Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025
The latest: Bourbon Street reopened to the public on Thursday with new vehicle-resistant barricades on the sidewalks.
—Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2025
McDonnell said his officers evacuated the building where Metoyer had barricaded himself, then spent hours trying to coax him out.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Noun
But police indicated that even functioning barricades wouldn't have stopped the attack, as the perpetrator drove up onto the sidewalk to bypass those safeguards.
—Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025
The latest: Bourbon Street reopened to the public on Thursday with new vehicle-resistant barricades on the sidewalks.
—Axios, 3 Jan. 2025
Verb
The sergeant then shot the man, who then ran into a nearby apartment building and barricaded himself, police said.
—Stephanie Lam, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2025
McDonnell said his officers evacuated the building where Metoyer had barricaded himself, then spent hours trying to coax him out.
—James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2025
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Go with your gut Bird was speaking on a panel alongside big hitters in the UK industry like Fremantle’s Brown, who delivered an impassioned plea for execs on both sides of the commissioning fence to take risks.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
23 Jan. 2025
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In the second incident, in September, a Secret Service agent saw a man hiding in the bushes and pointing a rifle through a fence at Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach while Trump was playing there.—
Josh Meyer,
USA TODAY,
23 Jan. 2025
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Teasing out the true effect of the risk of Trump tariffs on overall import gains is difficult because companies closely guard trade data.—
Lisa Baertlein and Ellen Zhang,
USA TODAY,
15 Jan. 2025
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As for the status of Butler trade talks, the agent for Suns guard Bradley Beal, Mark Bartelstein of Priority Sports, reiterated to The Athletic on Tuesday that nothing is brewing between the Heat and Phoenix that involves his longtime client.—
Sam Amick,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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While corporate America has long celebrated shattering the glass ceiling, a more pervasive barrier continues to hold women back from reaching leadership positions — the broken rung.—
Kara Dennison, SPHR, CPRW, EC,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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Only two people survived after the 15-year-old 737-800 Boeing plane run by Jeju Air skidded across the landing strip without landing gear and crashed into a concrete barrier containing antennas, bursting into flames.—
Raul A. Reyes,
Newsweek,
23 Jan. 2025
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Some of the moves revive policies from his first administration, including forcing asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico, cracking down on asylum access and finishing the border wall.—
Rebecca Santana,
Chicago Tribune,
20 Jan. 2025
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When Trump declared a similar national emergency on the border in 2019 in order to justify using military funds for building a border wall, courts blocked the move, saying a military construction project needed to be in support of a military deployment.—
Brian Bennett,
TIME,
20 Jan. 2025
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“Barricade.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/barricade. Accessed 29 Jan. 2025.
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