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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 Running large language models or custom inferencing workflows incurs real infrastructure costs. Alvaro Morales, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025 However, the presentation to the electorate was not solely about a stadium; the CIT was also pitched as a way to fund public safety, police forces, fire services, storm infrastructure and education. Adam Crafton, New York Times, 13 May 2025 However, in the U.K., results from payments infrastructure startup ClearBank hinted at the impact of lower rates. Ryan Browne, CNBC, 13 May 2025 These are the conduits of trust — not afterthoughts but front-line infrastructure. Justin Ángel Knighten, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for infrastructure
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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
  • While there is no way for an AI assistant to replace a genuine human connection, a comforting presence can go a long way if no other support structure is available.
    Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 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
  • As organizations ship more features, spin up new services, and adopt increasingly complex architectures, the volume of observability data expands in parallel.
    William Jones, USA Today, 9 May 2025
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  • The regulatory backdrop is significant, too Days before the trip, the U.S. Commerce Department rescinded the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, a sweeping framework that would have imposed tiered export controls across dozens of countries.
    Catherine Baab, Quartz, 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

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“Infrastructure.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infrastructure. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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