as in structure
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form
you've got the framework of the story and just need to fill in the details
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An evolutionary framework allows AlphaEvolve to focus on the best solution and improve upon it.
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Scharon Harding – May 14, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
As religious participation declines, one important answer is to create secular frameworks that similarly build common meaning and shared purpose among people—qualities that machines, by definition, cannot provide.
—Kim Samuel, Time, 14 May 2025
Change can no longer be systematically managed through static frameworks or legacy leadership models.
—William Jones, USA Today, 3 May 2025
Advertisement Advertisement As the head of a legal organization that advocates for immigrants, I’m cursed with a front-row view of the framework that threatens to erode our democracy.
—Kica Matos, Time, 2 May 2025
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Scharon Harding – May 14, ArsTechnica, 14 May 2025
As religious participation declines, one important answer is to create secular frameworks that similarly build common meaning and shared purpose among people—qualities that machines, by definition, cannot provide.
—Kim Samuel, Time, 14 May 2025
Change can no longer be systematically managed through static frameworks or legacy leadership models.
—William Jones, USA Today, 3 May 2025
Advertisement Advertisement As the head of a legal organization that advocates for immigrants, I’m cursed with a front-row view of the framework that threatens to erode our democracy.
—Kica Matos, Time, 2 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for framework
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As the sun sets on century-old structures and the dirt gives way to bulldozers for a multimillion-dollar rebuild, Pimlico Race Course hosted an exciting 150th Preakness Stakes on Saturday.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
18 May 2025
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Consider dual-class share structures whereby founders shield themselves from responsibility regardless of the performance of the company.—
Jim Osman,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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Both Hull and his production team and the Disney+ series’s own VFX team use the weight of Barbican estate style and brutalist architecture to create the sense of order being imposed on those lower levels of the city.—
Sarah Shachat,
IndieWire,
10 May 2025
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Fourteen members of the Wheaton church accompanied Cochran, who studied the history of Roman and Christian art and architecture for his graduate degrees.—
Daniel C. Vock,
Chicago Tribune,
9 May 2025
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“Framework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/framework. Accessed 21 May. 2025.
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