cadres

Definition of cadresnext
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 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 Ma said he was sent to Xinjiang to learn how officials were treating the Muslim population there, alongside cadres from other provinces. Rebecca Wright, CNN Money, 27 Feb. 2026 History suggests that the proficient cruelty of such regimes is unable to compensate for the stupidity and incompetence of their cadres. Elizabeth Tsurkov, The Atlantic, 11 Jan. 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 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 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
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Noun
  • Walking across shiny, immaculately clean floors into the still room, a tour leads visitors to a room with the immense structures the Bakers use to make their special brand of whiskey.
    Emily M. Olson, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2026
  • And although the new addition containing the guest rooms sticks out quite a bit, the original brick structures have been carefully preserved.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
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  • The cast also includes Nayanthara, Kiara Advani, Huma Qureshi, Rukmini Vasanth and Tara Sutaria in what Yash describes as roles built around power dynamics that extend beyond conventional gender frameworks.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 May 2026
  • The governance, audit, and insurance frameworks enterprises rely on were written for a world where a human approved every transaction.
    Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • The drive for digital sovereignty is reaching all continents, often throwing long-standing IT architectures and the dependencies that come with them into doubt or disarray.
    Kevin Korte, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • Although there are fewer cores than the main desktop and laptop chip lines, Wildcat Lake still leverages cutting-edge process nodes and architectures.
    Jon Martindale, PC Magazine, 13 May 2026
Noun
  • Like Ophelia’s Got Talent, SANCTA pushes the limits of the infrastructures that support performance art.
    Caroline Lillian Schopp, Artforum, 13 May 2026
  • Sometimes, the urgency of providing healthy food eclipses the equally important need to build new infrastructures such that one day, food inequalities will no longer exist.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 29 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Restoration efforts on 86 of those casts began about 10 years ago, during which researchers took CT scans and X-rays to determine whether complete skeletons were present.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 18 May 2026
  • The Bone Museum in Brooklyn presents skeletal insights using actual skeletons, including showing how corsets severely compress bones, and an examination of the anatomy of conjoined twins.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026

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“Cadres.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadres. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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