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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

In London, the Colonial Office announced that most of Britain's West Indian islands had agreed to federate.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nations or Colonies mutually independent federate as a step towards union; it is “unprecedented” to reverse the process and qualify union by looser ties of cohesion.

From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan

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 Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon

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

There are "a great many evil-disposed persons among the federates."

From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by John Durand

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

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

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 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

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

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

In 1874-5 he travelled as a Government Commissioner in South Africa with the view of fostering a movement in favour of federating the various colonies there; in 1876 he served on the Scottish Univ.

From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin


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