cadres

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 Xi and his cadres see high-end chips, quantum computing, robotics and AI as critical to powering economic growth and upgrading Chinese manufacturing. Simone McCarthy, CNN, 3 Mar. 2025 The group has carried out only smaller-scale attacks inside Turkey in recent years though, and has seen the Turkish military using armed drones to drive many of its cadres across the mountain border into neighboring Iraq. Willem Marx, NPR, 1 Mar. 2025 Unleashing Elon Musk and his DOGE cadres on the federal government, menacing Canada and European allies, and embracing Vladimir Putin’s wish list for Ukraine and beyond are not unrelated. Garry Kasparov, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2025 In the audience were cadres of men wearing clothing expressing support for veterans or service in the military, but also protesters who momentarily disrupted proceedings but were removed from the room. Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Jan. 2025 In the audience were cadres of men wearing clothing expressing support for veterans or service in the military, but also protesters who momentarily disrupted proceedings and were removed from the room. Lisa Mascaro, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025 His demand that party cadres adhere to ideological orthodoxy and demonstrate personal loyalty to him will undermine the governance system’s flexibility and competency. Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 22 June 2021 Under Hu’s direction, tens of thousands of CCP cadres, including hundreds of high-ranking ones, were rehabilitated and assigned to official positions. Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2025 Israel’s recent airstrikes have also had an effect on the group’s presence in Syria, pushing many of its leaders and cadres to flee back to Lebanon. Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2024
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  • The chip’s hybrid design—photonic cores working alongside traditional electronic control and memory systems—means it can be programmed using standard machine learning frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 10 Apr. 2025
  • The meeting in Thune’s office came after days of hard-line House lawmakers hammering away at the Senate’s budget resolution, which was meant to be a compromise between the contrasting frameworks each chamber adopted earlier this year.
    Mychael Schnell, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
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  • Their architectures allow governments and enterprises to deploy AI at scale while lowering the total ownership cost.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Data volumes grow exponentially, and enterprises must design architectures that scale efficiently.
    Gowtham Chilakapati, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • 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
  • These infrastructures generate large volumes of data that IT teams don’t have the time or bandwidth to manage and monitor.
    Gary Drenik, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2025
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  • Most of the hundreds of human skeletons recovered from 2500 to 1500 BC in the country typically have not contained evidence of brutality, the study authors said.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Dec. 2024
  • The dinosaur is known from several skeletons that are remarkably complete compared with other dinosaurs known from the same Early Cretaceous rocks.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Dec. 2024

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“Cadres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadres. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.

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