federate
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California’s elderly parole program originates from a federate court ruling aimed at reducing overcrowding in jails and is based in part on studies that show that the risk of recidivism decreases with age.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 25, 2026
The technical term for making social networks interoperable this way is “federation,” and it turns out there are multiple ways sites can federate.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2024
It aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community.
From Forbes ● Feb. 15, 2013
His plan is to federate Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The law of 1884 gave state employees the right to form associations, but not to federate or organize syndicats.
From Socialism and Democracy in Europe by Samuel P. Orth
The sentiments manifested by the federates equally disquieted him.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
An address was read from the federates of the eighty-two departments, asking the Sections of Paris to assemble in arms.
From The Sword of Honor, volumes 1 & 2 or The Foundation of the French Republic, A Tale of The French Revolution by Eug?ne Sue
Only the federates of Mayenne, Ile-et-Vilaine, and especially of Finisterre, were "young men well brought up and well informed about the cause they were going to support."
From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand
The few hundred federates with whom he was, and in whose ranks were men of many different battalions, were charged with the defense of the entire quartier, from the quai to the Rue Saint-Dominique.
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
According to the report of the Minister of War, read the 30th of July, at the evening session, 5,314 department federates left Paris between July 14 and 30.
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by John Durand
The group recommended adopting what they described as a federated model, with a centralized setup and more shared services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
There have been years of discussions of a federated European Union cloud and talks of what lessened dependence on the whims of American Big Tech companies might mean.
From Barron's ● Jan. 28, 2026
Ionos is among 377 organisations participating in the Gaia-X project, which aims to join up cloud service providers in a federated system, so data can move between them while data owners remain in control.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2023
The report said Meta's new content app would support ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that powers Twitter-rival Mastodon and other federated apps.
From Reuters ● Mar. 10, 2023
Under the German empire education is left to the exclusive control of each of the federated states.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" by Various
EU institutions, Kirchick argues, are struggling toward a complex and noble goal: federating 28 countries.
From Slate ● Apr. 13, 2017
He links the increase to schools federating and becoming academies and to intense pressure over poor results.
From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2010
In "federating" the labor laws of Mexico, President Fortes Gil aims first to set up a system of federal "labor courts" and "labor judges" with a "Supreme Labor Court" at Mexico City.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France.
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At midnight Mr. Lingnam brought down his big-bellied despatch box with the newspaper clippings and set to federating the Empire in earnest.
From A Diversity of Creatures by Rudyard Kipling