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 His new appointees will likely face the same resistance from the older cadres in the general staff. Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 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 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
  • That plan called for limiting structures to a 1,400-square-foot footprint and a single story not to exceed 18 feet in height.
    Adam Van Brimmer, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026
  • The letter was sent several days after the NPS released a preliminary assessment that found the arch could have significant adverse effects on the historic structures around it.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Consulting and academic contexts still favor frameworks with a single quantifiable maximand.
    Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 3 Aug. 2026
  • National governments should set standards, build regulatory frameworks and create financing mechanisms.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 31 July 2026
Noun
  • Agentic architectures make this worse in a way architecture diagrams don't show.
    Claude Mandy, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
  • That's already some serious driving distance, and Chinese automakers are starting to push well past those limits into four-figure mileage territory by pairing their most efficient ICE technology with advanced electric drive architectures.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • That may mean different standards, infrastructures, and governance.
    Alex Capri, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026
  • Security and intelligence officials have been warning this is exactly how Iran would retaliate, that Iran poses just this kind of threat, not only to water systems, but to other critical infrastructures.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Eventually a ring of low-lying islands forms, built from the skeletons of the reef that surrounds it.
    NPR, NPR, 3 Aug. 2026
  • But there’s something very freeing for all my skeletons to be out of the closet.
    Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 3 Aug. 2026

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“Cadres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadres. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.

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