as in structure
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form
the rigid armature of a highly stratified society
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Recent Examples of armature
It’s made of steel armatures and outfitted with an internal irrigation system.
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
And yet this is your starting point; this is the kind of the armature that the whole enterprise hangs from.
—Jeff Wise, Vulture, 26 May 2025
Half a dozen balanced armature drivers bring precision to the mid-to-high frequencies.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
After the sculpting is done, the puppets are separated into pieces, and an interior armature is made of steel ball-and-socket joints that can be used to animate the character.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
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Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 23 June 2025
And yet this is your starting point; this is the kind of the armature that the whole enterprise hangs from.
—Jeff Wise, Vulture, 26 May 2025
Half a dozen balanced armature drivers bring precision to the mid-to-high frequencies.
—Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
After the sculpting is done, the puppets are separated into pieces, and an interior armature is made of steel ball-and-socket joints that can be used to animate the character.
—Ryan Fleming, Deadline, 13 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for armature
Recent Examples of Synonyms for armature
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The problem comes when ideological casting choices begin to undermine the narrative, contravening Grisham’s famously effective structure and pacing.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Keep a distance from tall, solitary trees or other elevated structures.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
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Wu also emphasized that Beijing is open to international cooperation, including data sharing, with the goal of building a joint global asteroid defense framework.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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Taken together, the three lights provide a framework that is both simple and profound.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Gateway — the Artemis program's pitstop space station in lunar orbit — has had a bumpy path inside the program's architecture.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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The company has used the same general-purpose architecture for this purpose.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Halloween decor at Pottery Barn is impressive—everyone’s favorite Icon line featuring pumpkins and ghosts, life-size skeletons, terracotta pumpkins, holographic mirrors, and more—but the deals are even more so.—
Stephanie Osmanski,
Better Homes & Gardens,
5 Sep. 2025
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The amount of inner tension that is required to hold together what is the most seemingly normal, regular middle-class existence with a working husband and two jobs and kids and a house and a crazy brother and your elderly mom, and, obviously, the skeleton in the proverbial closet.—
Mia Galuppo,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Armature.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armature. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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