as in architectures
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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Recent Examples of frameworks
The question is whether your governance frameworks have caught up with what your developers are already doing.
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Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
John Woods, Lombard Odier’s Asia chief investment officer, warned that many families risk squandering wealth without stronger governance and planning frameworks.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 29 May 2026
The 2008 changes in the System of National Accounts (SNA) ensured intellectual property and intangible assets were included in various national and international accounting frameworks.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
The instructions were added to jqwik, a test engine for JUnit 5, a platform for testing Java virtual machine frameworks.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2026
In 1985, the state Legislature passed a set of sweeping growth-management reforms that included, for the first time, a requirement for Florida’s cities and counties to adopt local frameworks for future development, known as comprehensive plans.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
Even though entertainment marketing remains harder to measure than straight performance marketing or influencer campaigns, Gap appears to be putting real frameworks in place around it.
—Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 22 May 2026
As such, international frameworks and agreements could facilitate information sharing, standardize security protocols and establish rapid response mechanisms in the event of a cable breach.
—John Calabrese, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
The chip’s hybrid design—photonic cores working alongside traditional electronic control and memory systems—means it can be programmed using standard machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
John Woods, Lombard Odier’s Asia chief investment officer, warned that many families risk squandering wealth without stronger governance and planning frameworks.
—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 29 May 2026
The 2008 changes in the System of National Accounts (SNA) ensured intellectual property and intangible assets were included in various national and international accounting frameworks.
—Literary Hub, 28 May 2026
The instructions were added to jqwik, a test engine for JUnit 5, a platform for testing Java virtual machine frameworks.
—Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 28 May 2026
In 1985, the state Legislature passed a set of sweeping growth-management reforms that included, for the first time, a requirement for Florida’s cities and counties to adopt local frameworks for future development, known as comprehensive plans.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 22 May 2026
Even though entertainment marketing remains harder to measure than straight performance marketing or influencer campaigns, Gap appears to be putting real frameworks in place around it.
—Jesse Kirshbaum, SPIN, 22 May 2026
As such, international frameworks and agreements could facilitate information sharing, standardize security protocols and establish rapid response mechanisms in the event of a cable breach.
—John Calabrese, The Conversation, 10 Apr. 2025
The chip’s hybrid design—photonic cores working alongside traditional electronic control and memory systems—means it can be programmed using standard machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow.
—Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for frameworks
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An engineer evaluates two architectures and sees the cost-per-inference difference in their AI chat session, during the development cycle, not weeks later.—
Udam Dewaraja,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2026
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Commercial space expertise Apex contributes satellite production capabilities that align with emerging defense space architectures.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 June 2026
Noun
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Some people stopped to take in the canopy shade structures and brand new indoor pavilion.—
Kendrick Calfee
June 6,
Kansas City Star,
6 June 2026
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Past laboratory tests frequently detected intense magnetic structures emerging from this expansion, but scientists could not pinpoint their origin.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
6 June 2026
Noun
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Satellite communication has quietly become one of the most critical infrastructures of modern civilization.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
30 May 2026
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The infrastructures of capitalism now flow through cables and cloud servers that states have been slow and economically disincentivized to regulate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 May 2026
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“Frameworks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frameworks. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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