barrier
noun
anything built or serving to bar passage, as a railing, fence, or the like.
barriers
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pluralof barrier.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Beijing is targeting 40 key technologies in response to Western trade barriers.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
It praised “artificial intelligence and machine translation” as “cost-effective methods for bridging language barriers and reducing inefficiencies with the translation process,” and called for phasing out “unnecessary multilingual offerings.”
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
These barriers to entry offer some industries a measure of safety from AI disruption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
They then trained machine learning models to quickly estimate the energy barriers that additional reactions would need to overcome.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
The young dog, too, was hungry; but he would have to be on the verge of starvation before the barriers of deep-rooted Labrador heredity would be broken, down.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
