barricade

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

A police officer places a metal barricade on the streets around Madison Square Garden while a TV crew looks on.

From BBC ● Jul. 3, 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

“You would think,” says Jacqui, “if they built a barricade, they’d at least have someone manning it.”

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

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

From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026

Volunteers stretched blue tarpaulins over small groups as chants continued and soaked demonstrators waited for news from the police barricades.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

Organizers needed 30 minutes to get things set back up and kept entry gates shut, prompting the impatient among the crowds to press forward on metal barricades.

From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026

Secrecy surrounding the event is so tight that the reported venue has been cordoned off with privacy tents, tarps and barricades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026

Maniac tried to picture Amanda and Hester and Lester and Bow Wow storming the barricades.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli

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

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

He then barricaded the man in the shop with a shopping trolley, as a bystander called the police.

From BBC ● May 3, 2026

The structure wound down into the opposite chair, then onto the floor, emptying at the base of a three-level cat tower, otherwise barricaded from Fig’s access.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

Protesters and worried family began arriving soon afterward, and by 2:30 p.m., a line of about 30 agents, including National Guard members, was barricading nearby Laguna Road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2025

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

“Voldemort’s on his way, they’re barricading the school—Snape’s run for it—What are you doing here? How did you know?”

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling