barricade
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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
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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
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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
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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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