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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

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

After a day of largely peaceful demonstrations on Saturday, including a counter-protest in support of ICE, some protesters attempted to breach a police barricade, prompting police to use tear gas.

From Barron's May 31, 2026

As we come to the gate of my community, I can see that it’s blocked by a barricade of sorts; another sign of how deep the crisis has cut.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

From Salon Aug. 16, 2026

Instead, over the last five years, it has turned the historic stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard into a nuisance, a ghost-town construction site with vandalized fences and barricades sitting for years on end.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The struggle over public safety became concrete when residents began placing makeshift barricades in the streets to slow ICE vehicles.

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

The church was already surrounded, and police were putting up barricades on the streets around the building.

From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry

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

By the time deputies arrived, the suspect had barricaded himself inside his home, authorities said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 15, 2026

Now, Europe’s land borders are nearly all barricaded in imposing fences.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The special enforcement bureau, which handles high-risk tactical operations like barricaded suspects and hostage situations, has been at the center of several recent controversies.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 4, 2026

Five minutes later, they were barricaded in Moaning Myrtle’s out-of-order bathroom once again.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling

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

After barricading themselves inside, they named the building “Dr. Adnan’s office” in honor of Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, a leading Palestinian surgeon who died in April in an Israeli detention facility.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 5, 2024

He told BBC News he saw families "barricading themselves behind a circle of luggage trolleys to keep themselves safe because they didn't feel that safe because there was absolutely no staff".

From BBC Apr. 18, 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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