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
The Catholics are willing to receive stray sheep; the Protestants are trying to federate the flocks.*
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During the past ten years the literary club movement has done an immense amount of educational work, and Maine was the first State to federate.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Ida Husted Harper
You maintain," it was replied, "that we may raise in mass the federates and the patriots.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
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 E. P. Robins
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 M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet
The federates, evidently softened and touched by the pastor's despair, remained near him and had pity upon him.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
At eight in the evening the federates, who were not aware that we had escaped, came back and called on the gaolers to produce us.
From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by John Leighton
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
On the other hand, the members of a local community are usually ready to form a federated church when they understand it.
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill
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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Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France.
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They did not even speak of federating the large towns for the conquest of their common enfranchisement.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary