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frameworks

noun

plural of framework

as in architectures

the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form you've got the framework of the story and just need to fill in the details

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Recent Examples of frameworks Businesses face a growing body of legislation, reporting requirements and regulatory frameworks that can potentially overlap. — Ben Vanpeperstraete, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2026 This theory, also known as active inference or the free energy principle, has become one of the most important frameworks in neuroscience for understanding how the brain works as a whole. — Maia Szalavitz, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 Companies are developing frameworks for measuring performance, optimizing interfaces, and testing whether biological computation can deliver consistent results across tasks. — Mike McRae 19, New Atlas, 20 Oct. 2026 Brazil, Mexico and Colombia are each advancing their own frameworks for digital assets, while other countries are still figuring out how to integrate stablecoins and tokenized money while supporting systemic stability. — Maghnus Mareneck, Forbes.com, 20 Oct. 2026 These are welcome steps, as are the safety frameworks leading labs have published. — Giorgos Tsetis, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2026 In an ironic twist, China is now looking to restrict US and international access to its own AI tools and frameworks. — Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 16 Oct. 2026 The Israeli firm also used European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) consent frameworks to target users within the European Union. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 15 Oct. 2026 Dante populated his realms of Hell and Purgatory with figures, monsters and moral frameworks borrowed directly from classical Greek and Roman myths. — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

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The team used Argonne’s Hardware/Hybrid Accelerated Cosmology Code (HACC), developed to run large-scale cosmological simulations across different supercomputing architectures.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026
Design architectures that can introduce emerging compute resources without rebuilding the enterprise around them.

— Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of architectures

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For New Wave, Ropion and McCurtin looked to one of perfumery’s most enduring structures—the amber accord—and considered how to reinterpret it for today.

— Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 21 Oct. 2026
Rates and fee structures for checking and savings accounts are subject to change, and interest rates can rise or fall along with the federal funds rate.

— Andreina Rodriguez, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of structures

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In their effort to recall a variety of pieces and themes while foregrounding the public infrastructures that enabled their exhibition, Armani and Siegel demur from much evaluation.

— Anna Kornbluh, ARTnews.com, 7 Oct. 2026
The city of about 250,000 people has been rattled by a series of drone strikes that hit oil and power infrastructures.

— ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026

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