cadres

noun

plural of cadre
as in structures
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form claims that the problem will never be solved within the existing cadre of the state bureaucracy

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Recent Examples of cadres The pace of killings slackened, with cadres told to reeducate rather than exterminate those who’d strayed. — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026 McDonald brought two cadres of students to work on two more squares created by El Camino students. — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Ma said he was sent to Xinjiang to learn how officials were treating the Muslim population there, alongside cadres from other provinces. — Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 The attacks on mainstream political parties also prompted introspection among some cadres. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025 History suggests that the proficient cruelty of such regimes is unable to compensate for the stupidity and incompetence of their cadres. — Elizabeth Tsurkov, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026 Xi and his cadres see high-end chips, quantum computing, robotics and AI as critical to powering economic growth and upgrading Chinese manufacturing. — Simone McCarthy, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025 The system, which fuses data from smartphones, security and traffic cameras, Wi-Fi signals, drones, government databases and social media, has granted Israel what seems an almost omniscient ability to track Hezbollah cadres’ every movement. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026 Ukraine’s model of unit-level drone academies, standardized syllabi for FPV, ISR, and loitering units, and a pipeline of instructor cadres can be adapted to Taiwan’s reserve structure and mobilization pathways. — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadres
  1. structures
  2. frameworks
  3. architectures
  4. infrastructures
  5. skeletons
Noun
  • Even in Caracas, where only five buildings collapsed, Rodríguez said at least 30 additional structures have already been classified as unsafe.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 July 2026
  • Or gawky characters, all angular bone structures and willowy limbs?
    — Max Berlinger, Vogue, 3 July 2026
Definition of structures
Noun
  • Molecular design matters Unlike conventional porous carbon materials that interact weakly with polysulfides, covalent organic frameworks can be engineered with precise pore structures and chemical functionalities.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
  • The challenge is keeping these frameworks in sync with technology.
    — Serenity Gibbons, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of frameworks
Noun
  • Practical engineering focus Electric propulsion systems rely on high-voltage architectures that differ from traditional gasoline outboards.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 July 2026
  • This is where many security architectures either mature or fail.
    — Abhik Biswas, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
Definition of architectures
Noun
  • Crypto sustainability will increasingly depend on whether security infrastructures are capable of adapting to the technological pressures already emerging, and accelerating on an ongoing basis.
    — Sean Stein Smith, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • Various European countries and Canadian provinces used the Covid crisis to accelerate massive digital identity infrastructures.
    — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
Definition of infrastructures
Noun
  • Since February, archaeologists have discovered eight human skeletons, bronze and gold jewelry, pottery and other artifacts indicating a ceremonial burial of wealthy people or members of the society’s upper classes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 6 July 2026
  • The calming locales both complement and contradict the plot’s revelations, which are hardly bombshells but do speak to how well-to-do families labor to shove inconvenient skeletons into the closet.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of skeletons

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