barrier
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Normally, this intestinal barrier helps prevent potentially harmful substances from escaping the digestive tract and entering the bloodstream.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
Ninety percent of those particles were small enough to qualify as nanoplastics, which are small enough to cross the blood-brain barrier and be absorbed into human cells.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
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
In 2019 he became the first person to break the two-hour marathon barrier under special conditions in Vienna, clocking an unofficial time of one hour 59 minutes 40 seconds.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
“Spider, I believe we will need your safety line. Beyond this barrier, I do not remember anything of the obstacles ahead. Everyone, keep your bravery high and your mind alert!”
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
The work involves throwing shrubs and clippings over the area in order to re-establish its natural habitat, which not only maintains the visual but also helps create barriers to runoff and debris flow, he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026
"We're taking the Bastille," one demonstrator shouted in Marseille as masked protesters rammed the door of the mayor's offices with security barriers, in reference to the 1789 storming of a fortress during the French Revolution.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 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
These symbolic gestures don’t directly address the longstanding theological barriers, but there has been some progress over the past several years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Now that the barriers were down, the limitation, in my terms, of our converse and understanding seemed intolerable to me.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman (1791)
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