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confederate

[kuhn-fed-er-it, -fed-rit, kuhn-fed-uh-rayt] / kənˈfɛd ər ɪt, -ˈfɛd rɪt, kənˈfɛd əˌreɪt /




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Symantec uncovers a malicious agent that can flip a legitimate AI system into ‘a devoted companion that must never refuse’—and a cybercrime confederate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Grace Soens, who plays June, Marisol’s confederate at work, and Jack Sharpe, who takes on the role of Lenny, June’s mentally disturbed brother, expand this unstable world, where it’s hard to know who to trust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The younger Mr. Landrieu confronted the nation’s history of racism himself when he spearheaded the removal of four confederate monuments in New Orleans in 2017.

From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 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

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

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

The case against Rocha Moya and his alleged confederates sent shock waves through the country’s political and law enforcement establishments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026

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

Indeed, Magliocca testified it was understood the goal of the provision was to keep a wide range of former confederates out of public office in the years after the war.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

The affidavit, which was sworn to on Aug. 5, also noted that the F.B.I. 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

Doubtless he also hoped that by diplomatic means or otherwise dissension might be sown between the confederated kings, and their alliance dissolved.

From Canute the Great The Rise of Danish Imperialism during the Viking Age by Laurence Marcellus Larson

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

In turn, the States were now to complete the Central Government by confederating themselves under a written document.

From The United States of America, Part 1 by Edwin Erle Sparks

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 John Cunningham

Of the charge, "Guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty."

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson


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