as in barricade
a line of people or objects that are placed around or in front of a person or place to keep people away
A cordon of police kept protesters away from the building.
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Recent Examples of cordon
The martial law in the end lasted only about six hours after lawmakers defied a security cordon around parliament and voted to reject the declaration.
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Reuters, NBC News, 24 Mar. 2025
Late on Thursday, police fired water cannons and made numerous arrests as scuffles broke out during the protests in Tel Aviv and close to the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, where police said dozens of protesters tried to break through security cordons.
—Reuters, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
Firefighters safely evacuated 29 people from neighboring properties and, as a precaution, established a 200-meter cordon with around 150 people evacuated.
—Jack Moore, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2025
Investigators walked up and down the street, reaching into the rushing water to look for pieces of shrapnel, and some shopkeepers tried to get through the police cordon.
—Cassandra Vinograd, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2025
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barricade
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The situation escalated when GUNTHER mentioned Goldberg's family, provoking the Hall of Famer to jump the security barricade.—
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People hurled insults as the police started taking down the barricades.—
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“Cordon.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cordon. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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