as in railing
a protective barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and its supports the car ran off the road, but fortunately only hit the guardrail

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Recent Examples of guardrail The Trump administration has promised to clear the way for American companies to develop A.I., including rescinding a Biden-era executive order that put guardrails on the use of the technology. David McCabe, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2025 Daniela Amodei, co-founder and president of Anthropic, also strongly emphasized in her session Wednesday at Canva Create the need for ethical and security guardrails to be built into the tools and applications that will be fueled by the generative AI tech being hatched by Anthropic and other firms. Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025 Why aren’t there any guardrails or safety barriers? Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Apr. 2025 Essentially, our current AI guardrails on steroids. Ryan Whitwam, ArsTechnica, 3 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for guardrail

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“Guardrail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/guardrail. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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