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federate

[fed-uh-reyt, fed-er-it] / ˈfɛd əˌreɪt, ˈfɛd ər ɪt /


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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

The two nations agreed not to federate, as first proposed, but to merge.

From Time Magazine Archive

The rest of the peoples of Italy, Italian, Greek, Illyrian and Etruscan, formed the federate allies of Rome—the socii Italici.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

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

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

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

A disturbance was excited in the Champs Élysées between the grenadiers of the Filles-Saint-Thomas and the federates of Marseilles, in which some grenadiers were wounded.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet

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 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

Speaking to the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Karp argued that patients' data would be safe if Palantir won the contract for the planned federated data platform.

From BBC Oct. 29, 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

The Pawnees proper consisted at one time of three bands or tribes, federated under a single head chief.

From Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people by George Bird Grinnell

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

Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France.

From Time Magazine Archive

If, then, the Home Rule Bill cannot in legal form be a federating or unifying measure, it must be one of a precisely opposite character, and a measure of devolution.

From The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers




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