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the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form a bold plan to deal a crippling blow to the infrastructure of international terrorism

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Recent Examples of infrastructure The district helped pay for the infrastructure upgrades when it was believed Foxconn would build a massive campus. Ricardo Torres, jsonline.com, 24 Oct. 2025 That taps into the kingdom’s plans to fashion itself as a key trade and logistics hub, investing in new infrastructure like ports and airports, and creating a new airline. Matthew Martin, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025 This includes forest loss caused directly by coffee farming - where land was cleared to grow the crop - as well as indirectly, from nearby road and infrastructure projects, for example. NPR, 24 Oct. 2025 As Fortune reported in early 2025, civil rights activists organized a nationwide boycott in protest of the company’s decision to scale back its DEI infrastructure, which had been celebrated in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for infrastructure
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  • There were five more minutes left to play — in Emery’s view, sufficient time to attack with greater structure, moving slowly with numbers upfield.
    Jacob Tanswell, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Despite the discovery of nuclear fission by Otto Hahn in December 1938 and significant achievements of other German physicists and chemists in research on the structure of the atom, the Nazis were not rushing to put that research to use.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • The company plans to continue releasing updates as testing progresses, pushing its axial flux architecture toward the next benchmark in electric propulsion.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Artworks, curated from the foundation’s existing collection, are categorized under four broad themes that explore architecture, the living world, techniques and materials, and the relationship between science and artistic creation.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2025
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  • These measurements confirmed that the metals were not forming nanoparticles but were dispersed as single atoms, chemically bound within the carbon framework in the favourable coordination environment — the secret sauce to their exceptional performance, according to a press release.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The Caux Round Table for Moral Capitalism will soon convene a process to build the vision and framework for a citywide circular system.
    Todd Lefko, Twin Cities, 26 Oct. 2025

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“Infrastructure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infrastructure. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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