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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First-strike platform Mass drivers on the moon would operate largely outside existing early warning and attribution architectures, thereby complicating detection and response by existing early warning systems.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
28 May 2026
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Multiple quantum hardware architectures are converging on this threshold.—
Sandy Peng,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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The Solana Beach City Council approved a second reading May 27 of an ordinance that outlines the types of structures that are allowed in public spaces used for outdoor dining.—
Luke Harold,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2026
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Keep a distance from tall, solitary trees or other elevated structures.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
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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As physicians assumed financial responsibility for patient populations, California medical groups built sophisticated infrastructures around utilization management, chronic disease management, referral coordination, post-acute management, and population health analytics.—
Sachin H. Jain,
Forbes.com,
28 May 2026
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“Frameworks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frameworks. Accessed 1 Jun. 2026.
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