barrier
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The biggest barrier to entry in motor sport is the cost of junior racing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Arnold Schwarzenegger, said affordability is “probably going to be the single biggest barrier to getting to the next level.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
Every barrier broken is a notch in a glass ceiling, and the ceiling does not care much whether the person who cracked it got to walk all the way through.
From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2026
"The shark was guided to the southern entrance of the North Port Waterfront Park, where a net barrier was installed to prevent it from re-entering," the oceans ministry said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 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
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Cell membranes are thin, flexible barriers made largely from fatty molecules called lipids.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
It turns out that while the interest is genuine, there are still serious barriers for most people.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 23, 2026
An American politician with that biography would campaign around it: the poor neighborhood, the ethnic barriers, the climb.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
Thorne said the "relatively low barriers to entry" meant some people could try and do the job, despite having little experience of working at weddings.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The barriers were seemingly endless miles of ditches, eighteen feet wide and fifteen feet deep.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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