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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As of July 2025, some 150 countries had signed cooperation agreements with China under the BRI framework.
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Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
One of the very attractive features of the amplituhedron, one that was noticed right away by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, was that these two features, unitarity and locality, are necessary (but not fundamental) consequences that can be derived by using the amplituhedron framework.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
This framework helps teams identify where AI adds value and where human insight still matters most.
—Brad Rencher, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
By this point, the movie’s film-noir framework reveals ample psychological, moral, and symbolic dimensions, and one that is explicitly political—the potential for police officers to abuse their power and frame others for their own misdeeds.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025
One of the very attractive features of the amplituhedron, one that was noticed right away by Arkani-Hamed and Trnka, was that these two features, unitarity and locality, are necessary (but not fundamental) consequences that can be derived by using the amplituhedron framework.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 5 Sep. 2025
This framework helps teams identify where AI adds value and where human insight still matters most.
—Brad Rencher, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
By this point, the movie’s film-noir framework reveals ample psychological, moral, and symbolic dimensions, and one that is explicitly political—the potential for police officers to abuse their power and frame others for their own misdeeds.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for framework
Noun
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The problem comes when ideological casting choices begin to undermine the narrative, contravening Grisham’s famously effective structure and pacing.—
Graham Hillard,
The Washington Examiner,
5 Sep. 2025
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Keep a distance from tall, solitary trees or other elevated structures.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Gateway — the Artemis program's pitstop space station in lunar orbit — has had a bumpy path inside the program's architecture.—
Josh Dinner,
Space.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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The company has used the same general-purpose architecture for this purpose.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Framework.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/framework. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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