guardrail
noun
guard·rail
ˈgärd-ˌrāl 
: a railing guarding usually against danger
especially
: a barrier placed along the edge of a highway at dangerous points
Examples of guardrail in a Sentence
the car ran off the road, but fortunately only hit the guardrail
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And while these models have stronger guardrails built in to prevent misuse, many people have found ways to ‘jailbreak’ them, effectively circumventing these guardrails.
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Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Without guardrails, that type of reclassification could be difficult for the IRS to enforce, Muresianu said.
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
But, rather than putting the election on a new track, these events merely detonated its guardrails.
—The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
Addressing these three pillars provides necessary consumer safety guardrails, while liberating the entire industry from overburdensome, outdated, expensive, and unnecessary regulations that have dogged the marijuana sector.
—Robert Hoban, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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Tharin Pillay, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
Without guardrails, that type of reclassification could be difficult for the IRS to enforce, Muresianu said.
—Bob Woods, CNBC, 4 Nov. 2024
But, rather than putting the election on a new track, these events merely detonated its guardrails.
—The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
Addressing these three pillars provides necessary consumer safety guardrails, while liberating the entire industry from overburdensome, outdated, expensive, and unnecessary regulations that have dogged the marijuana sector.
—Robert Hoban, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Guardrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guardrail. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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guardrail
noun
guard·rail
ˈgär-ˌdrāl
: a protective railing placed along dangerous areas (as of a road)
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