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Six example sentences with structural, each labelled with its topic.
Removing that wall is a structural decision, not a decorative one, and it needs an engineer's signature before demolition.
Architecture
Youth unemployment here is structural: the mills closed a generation ago and nothing replaced the apprenticeships they ran.
Economics
The losses were structural rather than seasonal, so cutting the holiday advertising budget was never going to fix them.
Business
The party's problem is structural, since its voters are packed into a few cities and win huge majorities in too few districts.
Politics
Structural reforms to the pension system, not another rate cut, were what the ratings agency asked for.
Finance
The court found a structural flaw in the appeals system, since the same office both prosecuted and reviewed the cases.
Law
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Found in 3 published word listsAuthoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)
- New General Service List (Browne et al. 2013)
- Science Vocabulary List
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