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barricade

[bar-i-keyd, bar-i-keyd] / ˈbær ɪˌkeɪd, ˌbær ɪˈkeɪd /


VERB
block, usually to protect
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Brooks has described applying for compensation as torturous, a barricade that is constantly preventing him from being able to move forward.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

Put differently, law does not begin by asking what the barricade does.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Ten years later he gained prominence when footage went viral showing his infantry fighting vehicle smashing through a makeshift barricade.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

Some also attempted to erect a barricade with rental bikes which was cleared by police.

From Barron's May 30, 2026

The sentences build a fence around her, a Times Roman 10-point barricade, to keep the thorny voices in her head from getting too close.

From "Wintergirls" by Laurie Halse Anderson

That is the popular constitutional contest the whistles, warnings, carpools, legal observers, and barricades made visible.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Volunteers stretched blue tarpaulins over small groups as chants continued and soaked demonstrators waited for news from the police barricades.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Secrecy surrounding the event is so tight that the reported venue has been cordoned off with privacy tents, tarps and barricades.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 3, 2026

The entrance of the luxurious hotel hosting the negotiations was protected by concrete blocks and metal barricades.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 21, 2026

Then he indicated the location of the soldier barricades.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III

One video outside a military recruitment office shows men in civilian clothes sitting inside a military van barricaded by crying women.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

"Mona barricaded herself inside her house, receiving no visitors and believing she was safe because she is a civilian," environmental activist and friend of Khalil, Maha Joumaa, told local media.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

The suspect remained barricaded as of Thursday afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 9, 2026

As before, the entrance was barricaded - this time with bed slats wedged against the stairs to the first-floor property.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

Emily gasped, realizing the yellow tape was a remnant from the perimeter that had barricaded the underground stairway the day before.

From "Book Scavenger" by Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

On Monday, authorities closed schools and colleges for two days and imposed restrictions on public movement by barricading many arterial roads.

From Barron's Mar. 2, 2026

When officers arrived, they detained one suspect immediately, but the second suspect was inside the manhole and refused to come out, barricading himself, said Officer Tony Im, a spokesperson for the Police Department.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2026

He told BBC News he saw families "barricading themselves behind a circle of luggage trolleys to keep themselves safe because they didn't feel that safe because there was absolutely no staff".

From BBC Apr. 18, 2024

In 2014, mini-storms of tumbleweeds swamped the drought-stricken prairie of southern Colorado, blocking rural roads and irrigation canals, and briefly barricading homes and an elementary school.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2024

My progress must have prompted the Sixers to end their covert attempts to clear the Third Gate and make its location public by barricading it before I or anyone else could reach it.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline




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