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cadre

[ka-dray, kah-dray] / ˈkæ dreɪ, ˈkɑ dreɪ /


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And the RSS and its network act as an accelerator for the BJP’s top talent: Mr. Modi began as a full-time RSS organizer, joining a cadre who vow to forgo marriage and personal wealth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026

In her math classes, Chacon is developing a growing cadre of high achievers in a student population that comes almost entirely from high-poverty families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026

While he wanted to focus purely on directing, the studio insisted that he appear in the film along with the cadre of ballet dancers he had chosen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

The book wasn’t written so much as it was built by a prominent ghostwriter, a cadre of well-placed friends and colleagues, and a publishing industry that’s made billions of dollars from trauma memoirs by women.

From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2026

It’s a horseshoe-shaped room with about a dozen beds and a cadre of nurses, who constantly bustle around, reading the computer printouts that churn out from the feet of our beds recording our vital signs.

From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman

The relationships rely on longtime Yemeni traders in Chinese cities and young cadres ideologically chosen by the Houthis who learned Mandarin to be able to access the market, according to Houthi experts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Frustratingly for career diplomats, Witkoff brushed off the usual cadres of government experts for complex negotiations.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

"We cannot accept low economic growth," he said in a speech to senior Communist Party cadres last month.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

But even he must occasionally reassure the population, and especially the Party cadres, that what he is doing makes some sort of sense.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

I had met him only once, when I addressed his group of MK cadres in Natal after my return from the continent.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela




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