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 Yet, in America hard core cadres of extreme, violence-friendly leftists, who are communists in all but name, are poised to gain control of the Democratic Party. Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 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
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Noun
  • The distinction matters because the two commitments would carry different financial structures.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The two structures run parallel to each other, creating a visible connection between Colorado's past and present.
    Spencer Wilson, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Anthropic and Google DeepMind run comparable capability frameworks, and their next frontier releases will reveal whether Critical designations become routine or stay an OpenAI story.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The Importance of Adhering to Strong Frameworks Organizations must also remain aware that there are many existing frameworks in relation to security policies that can help IT teams lay the groundwork for strong AI security practices and protocols.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Most existing access-control architectures were never designed to satisfy it.
    Gopichand Mannava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • That was the moment when modern deep-learning architectures really took off.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The city of about 250,000 people has been rattled by a series of drone strikes that hit oil and power infrastructures.
    ABC News, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The report also noted that TikTok Shop’s momentum illustrates a mechanism of migration—Eastern platforms exporting not just formats, but whole infrastructures for commerce and personalization as well as audience capture.
    Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Incomplete fossils are often viewed as less informative than nearly complete skeletons.
    The Conversation, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2026
  • The miracle behind Cruz’s discovery is that amphibians such as frogs, toads and salamanders rarely make it into the fossil records because of their fragile skeletons.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Cadres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadres. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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