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federate

[fed-uh-rayt, 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

Such a goal might yet be ours!—the battle-flags be furled, All the wars of earth be crushed, if only now your slender Hand should grasp her gnarled old hand And federate the world.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Alfred Noyes

Only the federates of Mayenne, Ile-et-Vilaine, and especially of Finisterre, were "young men well brought up and well informed about the cause they were going to support."

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand

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

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

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

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

He wished to preserve to the national guard a superiority, which it would have lost, if the whole of the federates had been armed.

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

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

It would seem wise, therefore, for the denominational authorities to agree that when federated churches are formed the choice of pastors should be made, so far as possible, on the basis of interdenominational reciprocity.

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

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

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

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 William Charles Henry Wood


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