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 Without their data, infrastructures and skilled personnel, crafting federal policies that serve the best interests of the nation would be impossible. Sheldon Jacobson, Twin Cities, 25 Sep. 2025 High-performance networking is the crucial element of these infrastructures, and Arista is providing the foundation. Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025 Shaffi, a senior data architect at Amazon Web Services, is widely recognized for designing secure, large scale data infrastructures that power global enterprises. Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025 Quarterback is an isolating and lonely position, despite entire infrastructures reverse-engineered in service of those who play it, to say nothing of the elaborate playbooks created for them. Seth Wickersham, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2025 Advertisement Advertisement The quakes have reportedly damaged roads and cut off networks between towns and cities, and reduced some homes and infrastructures to rubble. Chad De Guzman, Time, 2 Sep. 2025 In the early 1990s, individual regions and carriers had built their own telecommunications infrastructures using different technologies and protocols. IEEE Spectrum, 18 Aug. 2025 Each hospital has a different experience when translating AI into practice, due to dramatic variations in their infrastructures. Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2025 The short-term outlook remains robust, as tech giants such as Google and Microsoft are increasing capital expenditures for 2025 to expand their AI cloud infrastructures. Trefis Team, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for infrastructures
Noun
  • Legacy platforms carry decades of product architectures optimized for email, documents, and collaboration as separate entities.
    Jason Phillips, USA Today, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Skunk Works is investing the funds and manpower necessary to build and test survivable systems to meet customers’ evolving needs while broadening alignment with new tri-service architectures and global requirements as they are defined, according to a press release.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Those atoms then could bind together, just as Democritus had theorized more than 2000 years before, into the molecules and larger structures that composed our macroscopic world.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Excavations from 2006 to 2009 have identified the remains of a Byzantine church dating to the fifth century, but farther below, rock-cut structures have been dated to the period when Mary lived there.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Courts need frameworks for when agents sign contracts, invent things that are patented, or commit crimes.
    Toby Stuart, Time, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Duties include leading diverse teams, developing AI testing frameworks and establishing quality contracts.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 29 Sep. 2025

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