barrier
Example Sentences
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If only ticket prices weren’t such a barrier to true democratic access.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026
Expense is also a barrier to Australia's success being replicated in low and middle-income nations, who might not have the resources or the healthcare systems to support the push to elimination, researchers say.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
As costs rose, the nonprofit idea started to look more and more like a barrier to helping the company achieve its goals, since it limited its ability to raise money.
From Slate • Apr. 30, 2026
Scientists often need to observe how drugs move through the blood vessels in this barrier and whether they successfully reach brain tissue.
From Science Daily • Apr. 28, 2026
The second woman to break the sound barrier was one of Cochran's WASPs, Jean Hixson, who flew a Delta Dagger military jet in 1958, which was against regulations.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
Vocabulary lists containing barrier
Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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