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 Its former cadres scattered to new parties formed after the 1982 constitution was promulgated. Nick Taborall, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Sep. 2026 Other provinces and cities have only a few dozen minister-level cadres. Jonathan Flint, Harpers Magazine, 1 Sep. 2026 Some restrictions on cadres are not outright bans, and many have learned to read between the lines and regulate their own behavior to avoid trouble. Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 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 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
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  • The horse was found amid structures and artifacts that have revealed more details of military and daily life inside ancient Egyptian fortresses, the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities said in a Wednesday statement.
    Ahmed Shawkat, CBS News, 16 Sep. 2026
  • Laws used to criminalize dissent remain in force, intelligence and security agencies retain essentially the same structures and practices, and authorities have taken no steps to disarm or dismantle the colectivos.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 16 Sep. 2026
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  • Alongside safety protocols, new liability frameworks are being looked at so that commercial nuclear ships can be insured at reasonable market rates.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Models and orchestration frameworks are commoditizing rapidly.
    Gopi Duddi, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
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  • While rivals like Hyundai utilize ultra-fast 800-V architectures that charge in under 18 minutes, VW remains tethered to a 29-minute peak.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Microsoft is combining multi-agent orchestration, advanced reasoning, HPC, robotics and potential quantum capabilities within emerging scientific and enterprise architectures.
    Ingrid Vasiliu Feltes, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2026
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  • 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
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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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“Cadres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadres. Accessed 20 Sep. 2026.

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