confederate

“Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in the United States,” Mayor Stoney said in a statement on Twitter after the statue was gone.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022

Warnock became Georgia’s first Black senator and the first Black Democratic senator from a former confederate state.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022

The first march I ever attended was a protest in January 2000, to bring down the confederate flag from the top of the South Carolina State House.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2022

The question was whether the students, who were unaware they were being observed, spontaneously behaved in a positive manner toward the confederate.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2021

As the young men tried to squeeze by, the confederate looked up, annoyed.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

A perennial target of assassins, James survived the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes and confederates hoped to blow up Parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

The feds identified seven NBA games in 2023 and 2024, including the 2023 game in which Rozier allegedly tipped confederates to his decision to bench himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

The FBI has not identified all “potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

The newly released affidavit said that federal agents had “not yet identified all potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

And loyal confederates, Hamlet and I never revealed that we were authors of this tragicomedy.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Gorbachev, who struggled to form even a loosely confederated union out of the fifteen Soviet republics, blamed Yeltsin and the leaders of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus for plotting illegally to dissolve the bloc.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2016

President Obama has approved federal assistance for Okanogan County and the Colville confederated tribes to help repair or replace public infrastructure.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2014

President Barack Obama has approved federal assistance for Okanogan County and the Colville confederated tribes to help repair or replace public infrastructure lost in this summer’s wildfires.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2014

It was issued the year before the Constitutional Convention that would send the confederated former colonies into the epic called the United States of America. 

From Forbes ● Aug. 18, 2014

In 1873 their lands were sold, when most of the tribe confederated with the Peorias, a few remaining in Kansas as citizens.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by Jackson, W. H.

A combine "conspiring, combining, confederating, agreeing and cooperating between or among themselves."

From Time Magazine Archive

In Washington, Bosnian Croats and Muslims signed the constitution of a new federated state, confederating it with Croatia.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would rather take his chances of defeating the King's troops, confederating with other colonies, and securing the aid of one or more of England's enemy nations.

From Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 by Wertenbaker, Thomas Jefferson

And dissuading Israel from confederating with the heathen, and in language addressed to all, calling them to the exercise of Covenanting embodied in fearing his name, he commands them to approach him as holy.

From The Ordinance of Covenanting by Cunningham, John

The work of confederating the British American Provinces was one of compromise among the statesmen, the political parties and the people concerned.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by Dent, John Charles