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barricade

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


VERB
block, usually to protect
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Brooks has described applying for compensation as torturous, a barricade that is constantly preventing him from being able to move forward.

From Salon Aug. 10, 2026

This is where Minnesota’s lawsuit and Minneapolis residents’ barricade response pulled against each other.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Ten years later he gained prominence when footage went viral showing his infantry fighting vehicle smashing through a makeshift barricade.

From BBC Jul. 22, 2026

In July 2024, Rinderknecht demanded the chatbot generate an image that showed wealthy elites dining extravagantly on one side of a wall while the world burned beyond the barricade.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 12, 2026

Lights and voices spilled from the ballroom window, but a few yards beyond the darkness drew up its barricade and sealed them off.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

So naturally the party leadership seems prepared to go to the barricades to defend it.

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

But the city’s response to the barricades did not settle the public safety question.

From Slate Jul. 27, 2026

Thousands of protesters started gathering from early Monday, defying a steady monsoon drizzle and police barricades put up on routes leading to the site.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

As the march began, protesters spilled onto the streets before being halted at successive barricades.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Around the Armenian Quarter barricades have been erected.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

A city centre, once so scarred by sectarian violence that it was barricaded off every night, was turned into one big, pedestrianised stage to showcase all its traditions.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

One video outside a military recruitment office shows men in civilian clothes sitting inside a military van barricaded by crying women.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

In the countryside west of the Welsh capital, farmers have a WhatsApp group to warn of suspicious vehicles and some have barricaded the entrances to their fields with concrete blocks and fallen trees.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

They found a male, later identified as Ciarre Campbell, 41, who “appeared to have barricaded himself inside the home.”

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

I wasn’t worried about running into the Sixers, because there was no way they could have barricaded the Second Gate.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

On Monday, authorities closed schools and colleges for two days and imposed restrictions on public movement by barricading many arterial roads.

From Barron's Mar. 2, 2026

Rabbi Walker was one of the men who, like Mr Daulby, had been barricading the doors to stop Al-Shamie getting in before police shot the attacker dead.

From BBC Jan. 27, 2026

Keith’s drive had just enough behind it, though, clanging off the metal gate barricading the first row of outfield seats.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2024

In 2014, mini-storms of tumbleweeds swamped the drought-stricken prairie of southern Colorado, blocking rural roads and irrigation canals, and briefly barricading homes and an elementary school.

From Seattle Times Mar. 5, 2024

Kids crowded all along the back of the bench, barricading any escape.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia




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