as in structures
the arrangement of parts that gives something its basic form
the rigid armature of a highly stratified society
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Recent Examples of armatures
Meanwhile, two custom, high-performance, balanced armatures handle the high frequencies.
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Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Mark Sparrow, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for armatures
Noun
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Steel piers replaced wooden structures, and rigs reached farther from shore.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Keep a distance from tall, solitary trees or other elevated structures.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
5 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Flexible loads, intelligent storage, and advanced demand coordination should be treated as capacity resources in grid planning, with regulatory frameworks updated accordingly.—
Brian Barlow,
Fortune,
28 Mar. 2026
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Supporters say introductory courses had become too focused on contemporary social-justice frameworks and that the new standards restore an emphasis on classical thinkers, empirical methods and a broader range of perspectives.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
Noun
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What looked like a narrow corridor of cosmic architectures now opens into an embarrassment of possibilities.—
Paul M. Sutter,
Scientific American,
27 Mar. 2026
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Organizations may experiment constantly, yet their architectures of experimentation increasingly resemble one another.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
20 Mar. 2026
Noun
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At one point there’s a throwaway bit involving a roller coaster that dives into a pit of lava, eventually emerging with all its passengers transformed into happy skeletons; maybe we are supposed to be those happy skeletons, drained of life and loving it.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
1 Apr. 2026
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Another discovery was a new chimaera — also known as a ghost shark or rat fish — a type of animal related to sharks and rays, which have cartilaginous rather than bony skeletons.—
Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
31 Mar. 2026
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“Armatures.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armatures. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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