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
In London, the Colonial Office announced that most of Britain's West Indian islands had agreed to federate.
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 Orth, Samuel P.
The patriots, the sharpshooters, the federates, who had offered to defend the city with their lives, were equally indignant, that the city had been given up without firing a single shot.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
He also required that the federates, who were defended by the Girondists, should be sent without delay to Soissons.
From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)
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 sentiments manifested by the federates equally disquieted him.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. I by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
The national guard comprises at this time 110,000 registered members, besides 10,000 gendarmes and federates.
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Durand, John
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
All but one of the correspondents cherish a strong opinion that the federated church is the best arrangement when a community is overchurched and the churches are small.
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
Jamaica, much the largest and richest of the present federating group, will provide more than half the federation's 2,400,000 population.
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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After the Colonial Secretary had answered the premiers that he thought it better to wait a while before federating, the Canadian Prime Minister made a very earnest speech.
From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 42, August 26, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt