infrastructures

plural of infrastructure
as in architectures
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 infrastructures The city of about 250,000 people has been rattled by a series of drone strikes that hit oil and power infrastructures. ABC News, 12 Aug. 2026 The report also noted that TikTok Shop’s momentum illustrates a mechanism of migration—Eastern platforms exporting not just formats, but whole infrastructures for commerce and personalization as well as audience capture. Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 7 Aug. 2026 That may mean different standards, infrastructures, and governance. Alex Capri, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2026 Winners are extending existing platforms, products, research bases, and infrastructures while leveraging new open-source tools, capabilities, models, and datasets that can serve as public goods for the broader field. Ulrich Boser, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 Meanwhile, the new 1,100 MW nuclear plants will provide the constant baseline current and frequency regulation that heavy technology infrastructures require at all times. Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 15 July 2026 Various European countries and Canadian provinces used the Covid crisis to accelerate massive digital identity infrastructures. Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026 Advertisement More than 40 energy infrastructures across the Middle East were damaged in attacks during the war, forcing many refineries across the Gulf to halt production. Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 19 June 2026 For technical professionals, LLMs are core architectural elements that are fundamentally changing how digital infrastructures are built and maintained. Angelique Parashis, IEEE Spectrum, 19 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infrastructures
Noun
  • Most existing access-control architectures were never designed to satisfy it.
    Gopichand Mannava, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • That was the moment when modern deep-learning architectures really took off.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • The distinction matters because the two commitments would carry different financial structures.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • The two structures run parallel to each other, creating a visible connection between Colorado's past and present.
    Spencer Wilson, CBS News, 14 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Anthropic and Google DeepMind run comparable capability frameworks, and their next frontier releases will reveal whether Critical designations become routine or stay an OpenAI story.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2026
  • The Importance of Adhering to Strong Frameworks Organizations must also remain aware that there are many existing frameworks in relation to security policies that can help IT teams lay the groundwork for strong AI security practices and protocols.
    Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 7 Aug. 2026

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“Infrastructures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infrastructures. Accessed 15 Aug. 2026.

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