architects

noun

plural of architect
as in engineers
a person who designs and guides a plan or undertaking the architect of the economic plan that rebuilt Europe after World War II

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Recent Examples of architects Take the 1967 Africa Pavilion in Accra, designed for the Ghana International Trade Fair by a trio of Polish architects, Victor Adegbite, Jacek Chyrosz, and Stanisław Rymaszewski. — Justin Davidson, Curbed, 2 Sep. 2026 Eventually, Internet architects developed a series of measures to prevent such hijacking. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 2 Sep. 2026 Three architects leave a workshop, each with a different sense of what was agreed. — Maman Ibrahim, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2026 Over millions of years, those extra abdominal oars were simplified, repurposed, and eventually erased entirely, leaving behind the streamlined six-legged architects of Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems. — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026 The next day, his rebuild group met, and one of the architects brought up prefabricated housing as an option to speed things along. — Nicola Twilley, New Yorker, 27 Aug. 2026 But protests—including appeals from the architects, who offered to help authorities repurpose the complex—have failed to halt their destruction. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 27 Aug. 2026 After years of planning and wrangling, after more than $10 million spent on engineers, and lawyers, and architects; after all of the rumors, and headlines, and finger-pointing, the big presentation was ready to be made. — Noah Shachtman, Vanity Fair, 25 Aug. 2026 Now the receipts are in, showing striking progress in all three cases, with each already well on their way to cementing their reputations as the architects of some of the most remarkable corporate turnarounds of our era. — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for architects
  1. engineers
  2. masterminds
  3. leaders
  4. designers
Noun
  • Ada County Highway District engineers and Boise Planning and Zoning commissioners looked at the same plan to replace the Eckert Road Bridge near Barber Park and drew opposite conclusions.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 3 Sep. 2026
  • Instead, the engineers had to walk to the physical location of the problem—somewhere in the 4,000 square feet of floor space the electromechanical computer took up.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of engineers
Noun
  • Among them is wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, one of the masterminds behind the attack on Pearl Harbor.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Authorities were seeking both the assassins and masterminds of the crime, according to the president.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2026
Definition of masterminds
Noun
  • These decisions are not siloed within a sustainability team but are made the responsibility of commercial, sourcing, finance, and operations leaders.
    — Cleo Levin, Footwear News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Great storytellers know how to tell a story, but great leaders know how to find them.
    — Bryan Adams, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of leaders
Noun
  • The brand built its foundation in rock ‘n’ roll under founding designers Stuart Trevor and Kait Bolongaro in 1994.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Aircraft designers could gain more freedom when arranging electrical systems inside compact UAV structures.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of designers

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“Architects.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/architects. Accessed 4 Sep. 2026.

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