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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

The census list of citizens eligible for military service fell from about 280,000 at the beginning of the war to 237,000 in 209; and the federate allies must have suffered at least as heavily.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

The famous federates of Marseilles, who were to take such an active part in the coming insurrection, arrived in Paris the same day.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

At last the King concluded to take up in the Council the decree relative to the camp of twenty thousand federates.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

The federates came into Paris full of the most revolutionary projects.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

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

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

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

But he had no illusion as to peaceable secession; and he likewise worshipped the union, believing with deepest conviction that it is far better for neighboring communities to be federated than independent.

From The Brothers' War by John Calvin Reed

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

Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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