guardrail
noun
Also guardrailing. a protective railing, as along a road or stairway.
guardrails
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pluralof guardrail.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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After being stonewalled by automated model guardrails, the Citrini team reached out to Anthropic.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
Excitement about AI grows even as the industry puts up guardrails to contain it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026
Insurance—or the inability to acquire it at an affordable price—has the potential to help police AI by imposing guardrails on both developers and users as a condition of coverage, brokers and insurers say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Concerns about AI guardrails have soared after models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic were involved in security incidents during testing, piling on pressure to regulate the technology.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
Shay and Tally lay on their stomachs on the top floor of the stacks, where the dusty old paper books were stored, peering through the guardrails down at the group.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
