cadres

noun

plural of cadre
as in structures
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form claims that the problem will never be solved within the existing cadre of the state bureaucracy

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Recent Examples of cadres Some restrictions on cadres are not outright bans, and many have learned to read between the lines and regulate their own behavior to avoid trouble. — Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026 Yet, in America hard core cadres of extreme, violence-friendly leftists, who are communists in all but name, are poised to gain control of the Democratic Party. — Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 His new appointees will likely face the same resistance from the older cadres in the general staff. — Simon Shuster, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026 The pace of killings slackened, with cadres told to reeducate rather than exterminate those who’d strayed. — Matthew Campbell, Bloomberg, 22 May 2026 The system, which fuses data from smartphones, security and traffic cameras, Wi-Fi signals, drones, government databases and social media, has granted Israel what seems an almost omniscient ability to track Hezbollah cadres’ every movement. — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026 Ukraine’s model of unit-level drone academies, standardized syllabi for FPV, ISR, and loitering units, and a pipeline of instructor cadres can be adapted to Taiwan’s reserve structure and mobilization pathways. — Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 1 Oct. 2025 The attacks on mainstream political parties also prompted introspection among some cadres. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 20 Sep. 2025 McDonald brought two cadres of students to work on two more squares created by El Camino students. — Joe Rubin, Sacbee.com, 31 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cadres
  1. structures
  2. frameworks
  3. architectures
  4. infrastructures
  5. skeletons
Noun
  • Almost 50 homes and other structures have been destroyed so far; there have been several injuries, and one of Tibbetts’s neighbors lost 20 German shepherds.
    — Anya Kamenetz, Curbed, 28 Aug. 2026
  • These proposals, many times rooted in sympathy and love, were presented as alternatives to the political structures and market logic that had so often led to war, exploitation, hopelessness, and suffering.
    — Sebastian Smee, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of structures
Noun
  • Although many top‑level policy frameworks read promisingly, structural frictions create risk that reforms won’t deliver limited real‑world impact, Tang said.
    — Russell Flannery, Forbes.com, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Regulatory frameworks need to be built, and so do the supply chains and manufacturing systems.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of frameworks
Noun
  • The companies said that using modular hardware and open architectures helped reduce integration barriers and allowed the two systems to be combined more quickly.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
  • These algorithms rely on geometric complexities that are equally intractable for both classical and quantum architectures.
    — Adi Karisik, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of architectures
Noun
  • The city of about 250,000 people has been rattled by a series of drone strikes that hit oil and power infrastructures.
    — ABC News, 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
Definition of infrastructures
Noun
  • In these skeletons, Cole and her colleagues looked at the strontium-to-calcium ratio and at different isotopes of oxygen because both track temperature.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026
  • The bones were not in good condition; there were no fully articulated skeletons.
    — Jennifer Janofsky, The Conversation, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of skeletons

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“Cadres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadres. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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