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
Streit's seven democracies could simply make up their minds to federate, go full steam ahead and let Russia go whistle.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The question, therefore, was, whether the inhabitants of a federate state, which had not adopted the institutions and civil jurisprudence of Rome, could receive the rights of citizenship.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
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 Durand, John
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 Robins, E. P.
The federates stopped before this man, whose simplicity rendered him heroic.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
The pastor must have been eloquent and have spoken with profound conviction, for the federates who were listening to him began to weep, then seized and embraced him.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
A cosmopolitan, a catholic man; who, being such, ties himself to no narrow tailor or teacher, but federates, in heart as in costume, something of the various gallantries of men under various suns.
From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman
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
Instagram’s goal is to ultimately have Threads work across multiple apps in what it calls the Fediverse, which is shorthand for a federated universe of services that share communication protocols.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
By February 2023, just one pupil remained on its roll, although that pupil was actually taught at the nearby Sharow Church of England Primary School, which is federated with Skelton Newby Hall.
From BBC ● May 30, 2023
These examples are intended to include federated churches, church federations, and denominational union churches, as well as certain striking cases of the work of the church in community service.
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Gill, Charles Otis
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
Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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.
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Finally, in 1859, Grey almost reached what would have been the culminating point of his career by federating South Africa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various