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armatures

noun

plural of armature

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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 armatures Built around a 10mm dynamic driver and dual custom balanced armatures, Vanguarg is designed to deliver a precise listening experience with control, clarity and balance. — Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026

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The technology enables the scanning of objects to create thousands of X-rays, resulting in 3D renderings that can peer inside structures without damaging specimens — such as the inside of a snake’s tail.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2026
The new village structures, arrayed in an arc facing the water, feel comfortable and modern, and the architecture and design is heavily influenced by the islands.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 11 Sep. 2026

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Anthropic has accused Chinese companies such as Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, and MiniMax of the practice, while OpenAI believes DeepSeek's V3 and R1 model architectures were distilled from its own GPT-4 and GPT-4o models.

— Kate Rooney,Isabel O'Brien, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2026
Tech leaders should evaluate whether their own systems are prepared for tomorrow’s unknowns by focusing on modular design, flexible architectures, automation and simple low-code configurations.

— Miroslav Katsarov, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026

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In these skeletons, Cole and her colleagues looked at the strontium-to-calcium ratio and at different isotopes of oxygen because both track temperature.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
The bones were not in good condition; there were no fully articulated skeletons.

— Jennifer Janofsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026

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