barricade
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“That’s when we put the barricade to stop him from being moved,” Pillay recalled.
From Slate • May 29, 2026
Working with screenwriter Will Soodik, Parsons has gone back into that banal maze to find an uncannily mature story about loss and stagnation, about how our self-serving narratives barricade us from emotional growth.
From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026
About 220 yards from the finish line, the 5-foot-5 Lightning slammed into a barricade and collapsed.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026
The protesters begin moving towards parliament, but are stopped by the police barricade.
From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026
The chauffeur drove them to the residence of the Papal Nuncio, passing in front of a police barricade without anyone attempting to stop them.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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