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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 two nations agreed not to federate, as first proposed, but to merge.

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 Bertram Mitford

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 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

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

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 national guard comprises at this time 110,000 registered members, besides 10,000 gendarmes and federates.

From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by John Durand

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

Descriptions of federated churches may be found on pages 59-69.

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

Nothing awakened Canada so acutely to the necessity of federating all British North America as the Civil War in the United States, when the States Right party fought to secede.

From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut


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