barrier
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Money is a major barrier to the success of the biodiversity goals and an expected source of tension at COP17.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
Cortez blamed the city for not taking any permanent or lasting measures to prevent the ocean from spilling into the streets, such as putting in place a concrete barrier or reinforcing the seawall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
The other barrier to abolishing fraternities is their popularity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
That upper surface, which may face the outside environment or an open space such as the inside of a lumen, continues maintaining the tissue barrier.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 5, 2026
Once past this barrier, however, Taran saw they had entered a kind of gallery, long and low-ceilinged.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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Beijing is targeting 40 key technologies in response to Western trade barriers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Interprovincial barriers made it easier for many firms to do business in the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Vortex motion was governed by quantum tunneling, a phenomenon in which quantum objects can pass through energy barriers that would normally prevent their movement under classical physics.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
At his East London clinic, Stephen Hibbs—who treated the Albanian patient—found many of his colleagues had similar difficult stories of patients being harmed by language barriers.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
But humans are slowed by ecological and water barriers that crows can fly over.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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