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barricade

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


VERB
block, usually to protect
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Yoni Finlay, who was hit by a stray police bullet while helping to barricade the doors during the attack, will also speak at the service.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

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

In July 2024, Rinderknecht demanded the chatbot generate an image that showed wealthy elites dining extravagantly on one side of a wall while the world burned beyond the barricade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The Object and I could barricade ourselves in our room.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

In the Indian capital, police—who were deployed starting before dawn—stopped vehicles and pedestrians at yellow metal barricades.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Police say they have denied permission for the gathering and all roads leading to Jantar Mantar, the main protest venue, have been closed with huge metal barricades.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Attacks on government buildings in central Kyiv -- which are heavily fortified and ring-fenced by security barricades -- are rare, however.

From Barron's ● Sep. 4, 2026

From the street, it looks like a two-story fortress under construction, guarded by a crash-damaged chain link fence and a row of yellow-orange Caltrans barricades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

He winds through a series of barricades and makes for the tide line.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Delhi police denied permission for the demonstration to take place, with tens of thousands of security personnel deployed and roads barricaded.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

But this has been met with a collective shrug at barricaded school gates across the country.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026

Hernandez noted that other police technologies, such as a robot dog used in situations involving barricaded suspects, had quietly moved from a pilot to a full-fledged program without input from the council.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

On Sunday, access to the airbase at the airport, where the mutineers had barricaded themselves in, and to the presidency, was once again open, residents said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

He found the Air Force base all right, barricaded, walled, fenced, with keep out signs starting a mile away.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

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

After his late-night speech announcing the decree, opposition MPs and protesters converged on the National Assembly, but were met by police and military personnel barricading the building.

From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2024

After barricading themselves inside, they named the building “Dr. Adnan’s office” in honor of Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, a leading Palestinian surgeon who died in April in an Israeli detention facility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2024

Police believe the woman barricading herself is a missing Maryland woman found Tuesday morning.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2023

On better days, either I’m Elsie’s guinea pig for whatever wild invention she’s working on or she’s barricading the door and helping me practice my magic.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston




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