cadres

plural of cadre
as in structures
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form claims that the problem will never be solved within the existing cadre of the state bureaucracy

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Recent Examples of cadres The pace of killings slackened, with cadres told to reeducate rather than exterminate those who’d strayed. Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026 The system, which fuses data from smartphones, security and traffic cameras, Wi-Fi signals, drones, government databases and social media, has granted Israel what seems an almost omniscient ability to track Hezbollah cadres’ every movement. Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026 Ma said he was sent to Xinjiang to learn how officials were treating the Muslim population there, alongside cadres from other provinces. Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 History suggests that the proficient cruelty of such regimes is unable to compensate for the stupidity and incompetence of their cadres. Elizabeth Tsurkov, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 2026 Ukraine’s model of unit-level drone academies, standardized syllabi for FPV, ISR, and loitering units, and a pipeline of instructor cadres can be adapted to Taiwan’s reserve structure and mobilization pathways. Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025 The attacks on mainstream political parties also prompted introspection among some cadres. Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025 McDonald brought two cadres of students to work on two more squares created by El Camino students. Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Xi and his cadres see high-end chips, quantum computing, robotics and AI as critical to powering economic growth and upgrading Chinese manufacturing. Simone McCarthy, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadres
Noun
  • His team concluded certain areas were good for parks or golf courses — but not for permanent structures, like housing.
    Syra Ortiz-Blanes, Miami Herald, 24 July 2026
  • Maybe the projections are realistic, but the inter-company structures depend a lot on the types of numbers that executives often embrace over optimistically.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026
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  • His political project requires weakening the international institutions—the UN, EU regulatory bodies, multilateral climate frameworks—that his theology now identifies as potential instruments of the Antichrist’s rule.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 18 July 2026
  • Local marketing frameworks frequently highlight the power of a tight geographic radius—often framed as an 11-minute drive or walk—where the majority of regular customers live, work or frequent.
    Joseph Edgar, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Noun
  • Security architectures must be designed to limit blast radius rather than assuming compromise will never occur.
    Emil Sayegh, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • Operating behind proprietary architectures, providers of closed AI models can modify algorithms, rewrite policies, or restrict access overnight without warning.
    James Marks, Fortune, 23 July 2026
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  • Winners are extending existing platforms, products, research bases, and infrastructures while leveraging new open-source tools, capabilities, models, and datasets that can serve as public goods for the broader field.
    Ulrich Boser, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
  • Meanwhile, the new 1,100 MW nuclear plants will provide the constant baseline current and frequency regulation that heavy technology infrastructures require at all times.
    Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026
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  • In a paper published this month in PLOS One, Alaei and her colleagues propose an alternative - employing a suite of superworms, a kind of hefty beetle larva that can capably pick a variety of animal skeletons clean.
    Ari Daniel, NPR, 17 July 2026
  • Locals may recall the roughly 8,000-square-foot, six-bedroom home, which Combs bought from Gloria and Emilio Estefan in 2021 for $35 million, has some skeletons.
    Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026

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“Cadres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadres. Accessed 25 Jul. 2026.

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