structural

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The U.S., which hasn’t posted a clean sheet since September, has become an error-prone mess on defense, with Pochettino’s wide, attack-minded approach revealing a structural fragility that has left the Americans’ thin back line exposed.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Some of the reasons secretaries of state have made poor presidential candidates of late are structural.

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

These companies, including Charter Communications, Comcast and others, entered the market because of a structural advantage: Some 90% of all mobile traffic, regardless of provider, runs on the Wi-Fi networks they operate.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026

The data, instead, show a “crisis-driven liquidation by a handful of countries under severe currency pressure. It is not a structural shift away from gold reserves.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 4, 2026

It is as fundamental a structural change to the way music sounded as was the contemporaneous decision to start using timber frames and bricks in the building of houses.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall