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
Britain would like them to federate with a strong central government.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Ideally it will federate them all in community leadership.
From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by George Walter Fiske
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 Herman Melville
In the Rue des Frondeurs they struck up against a communist picket, but the federates, thinking a whole regiment was at hand, took to their heels.
From The Downfall by E. P. Robins
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 Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
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
Marseilles, federates of, arrive in Paris, 268; the scum of the jails, 269; at the Tuileries, 290, 306 et seq.,
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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
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
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 Bavarian Colonel Lessel, who had been for many years member of the federated military commission for Bavaria, was appointed commander-in-chief, and the lieutenant-colonel of the Frankfort battalion became governor of the town.
From The Prussian Terror by Alexandre Dumas
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
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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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If there is only a single church in the place and it commands the respect and loyalty of the people, it may well be the federating agency.
From The Challenge of the Country A Study of Country Life Opportunity by George Walter Fiske