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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 new tendency of U.S. public colleges to federate is most sharply evident in California, whose 15 state colleges, with 96,000 students, now comprise "the world's largest college system."

From Time Magazine Archive

Then I would seize the chieftainship, and federate a great nation, even as Tshaka had done, and Nangeza should help me to rule it.

From The King's Assegai A Matabili Story by Mitford, Bertram

Some federates, whose battalion was still holding the Rue Saint-Anne, attempted to prevent them from passing.

From The Downfall by Robins, E. P.

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

At last the King concluded to take up in the Council the decree relative to the camp of twenty thousand federates.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron

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

Have the federates, the national guard, and all true Frenchmen, refused to shed their blood in defence of the glory, the honour, and the independence of their country?

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron

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

Do we not already see springing up the desire for a federal republic, like the federated Swiss cantons?

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The chief justice was in favour of federating Upper and Lower Canada with the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland into a single dominion.

From The Father of British Canada: a Chronicle of Carleton by Wood, William Charles Henry




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