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barricade

[bar-i-keyd, bar-i-keyd] / ˈbær ɪˌkeɪd, ˌbær ɪˈkeɪd /


VERB
block, usually to protect
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Some also attempted to erect a barricade with rental bikes which was cleared by police.

From Barron's • May 30, 2026

Her neighbors put up a barricade to block the vehicles.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

“That’s when we put the barricade to stop him from being moved,” Pillay recalled.

From Slate • May 29, 2026

Its chief executive Kevin McPartlin told RTÉ that the number could be five times that by Friday night, adding that 50% of the country's new supply was being kept behind barricade lines.

From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026

Mr. Sleegers has been hired as night watchman, and tonight a carpenter from the underground is coming to make a barricade out of our white Frankfurt bedsteads.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank




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