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the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form
the nonlinear architecture of the novel reflects a postmodern sensibility
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This includes leadership of global sales, commercial architecture, and real estate functions.
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David Moin, Footwear News, 22 May 2025
With less than 100 days before its Aug. 31 debut from the Orlando-area port, the ship left Monday on an 11-day series of trials to test out the vessel’s navigation, naval architecture and engineering with more than 2,000 watchful eyes on board making sure Star of the Seas is seaworthy.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2025
Its design is informed by the area's traditional clay mud brick architecture, some of which dates back hundreds of years and is well-suited to the desert climate.
—Adam Williams
may 21, New Atlas, 21 May 2025
Both Hull and his production team and the Disney+ series’s own VFX team use the weight of Barbican estate style and brutalist architecture to create the sense of order being imposed on those lower levels of the city.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 10 May 2025
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David Moin, Footwear News, 22 May 2025
With less than 100 days before its Aug. 31 debut from the Orlando-area port, the ship left Monday on an 11-day series of trials to test out the vessel’s navigation, naval architecture and engineering with more than 2,000 watchful eyes on board making sure Star of the Seas is seaworthy.
—Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 May 2025
Its design is informed by the area's traditional clay mud brick architecture, some of which dates back hundreds of years and is well-suited to the desert climate.
—Adam Williams
may 21, New Atlas, 21 May 2025
Both Hull and his production team and the Disney+ series’s own VFX team use the weight of Barbican estate style and brutalist architecture to create the sense of order being imposed on those lower levels of the city.
—Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 10 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for architecture
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As the sun sets on century-old structures and the dirt gives way to bulldozers for a multimillion-dollar rebuild, Pimlico Race Course hosted an exciting 150th Preakness Stakes on Saturday.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
18 May 2025
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Consider dual-class share structures whereby founders shield themselves from responsibility regardless of the performance of the company.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Then there is brute-forcing fingerprint recognition using a framework called BrutePrint.—
Davey Winder,
Forbes.com,
26 May 2025
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More: Trump confronts South African leader with false claims of genocide in Oval Office ambush Mandela later tapped him to lead negotiations for the country's new democratic framework in 1991.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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Much of this decline is the direct result of Chicago’s admirable civic infrastructure of community violence intervention (CVI) programs, which, according to a Northwestern University report, are responsible for 40% drops in violence in neighborhoods where CVI is focused.—
Otis Moss III,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Her priorities as a council member would be to keep neighborhoods safe, improve roads and infrastructure, enhance city services, champion education and foster economic development.—
Rachel Royster,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
25 May 2025
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“Architecture.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/architecture. Accessed 30 May. 2025.
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