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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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Recent Examples of architectures
Depending on the use case, that information may include security architectures, cryptographic implementations, authentication and access-control logic, vulnerability remediation code, trade secrets, and other proprietary business logic.
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Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2026
The company says the model replaces fragmented, task-specific architectures typically used in robotics with a single framework capable of handling multiple tasks and environments.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
Manual security architectures cannot keep up.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Advanced power electronics, direct-current architectures, and novel cooling methods (which can also reduce water demand) are a few recent advances ready for use, and data centers have historically embraced new efficiency technologies.
—Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
But Sharka and others in the industry predict that future architectures may allow for less centralized computing power, enabling more companies to compete with smaller, less power-intensive data centers.
—Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
The processor will reportedly come with 16 CPU cores split across performance, efficiency, and low-power architectures.
—Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
What looked like a narrow corridor of cosmic architectures now opens into an embarrassment of possibilities.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
The most immediate relief available is a pivot away from HBM dependency toward commodity DRAM architectures engineered specifically for AI’s requirements.
—Sha Rabii, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Emily Hallas, The Washington Examiner, 30 Apr. 2026
The company says the model replaces fragmented, task-specific architectures typically used in robotics with a single framework capable of handling multiple tasks and environments.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 29 Apr. 2026
Manual security architectures cannot keep up.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026
Advanced power electronics, direct-current architectures, and novel cooling methods (which can also reduce water demand) are a few recent advances ready for use, and data centers have historically embraced new efficiency technologies.
—Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
But Sharka and others in the industry predict that future architectures may allow for less centralized computing power, enabling more companies to compete with smaller, less power-intensive data centers.
—Mohammed Sergie, semafor.com, 16 Apr. 2026
The processor will reportedly come with 16 CPU cores split across performance, efficiency, and low-power architectures.
—Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 14 Apr. 2026
What looked like a narrow corridor of cosmic architectures now opens into an embarrassment of possibilities.
—Paul M. Sutter, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
The most immediate relief available is a pivot away from HBM dependency toward commodity DRAM architectures engineered specifically for AI’s requirements.
—Sha Rabii, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for architectures
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Retail’s identity frameworks and supply chain’s architectural guardrails will be borrowed by those still catching up.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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Diversity Across Markets Requires Adaptive Infrastructure Africa is not a single market but instead a collection of economies with distinct regulatory frameworks, languages, and consumer behaviors.—
Lyssanoel Frater,
USA Today,
1 May 2026
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The Trinity fire, which started May 1 in Phelan, burned 19 acres with no structures damaged, though the blaze destroyed an unknown number of Joshua trees.—
Blanca Begert,
Los Angeles Times,
3 May 2026
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This elliptical, enigmatic sentence, with its palindromic form (not unlike that of the Heart Sutra), signals the main thrust of Pau’s work, which employs structures of looping, repetition, and recursion to explore the space of ambiguity and uncertainty.—
Pauline J. Yao,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Sometimes, the urgency of providing healthy food eclipses the equally important need to build new infrastructures such that one day, food inequalities will no longer exist.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Apr. 2026
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Especially designing technologies and infrastructures that can withstand extreme conditions.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Architectures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/architectures. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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