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
The two nations agreed not to federate, as first proposed, but to merge.
From Time Magazine Archive
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At that time this province contained nine colonies and eight municipalities of Roman citizens; twenty-nine Latin towns; six free, three federate, and one hundred and twenty tributary communities.
From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly
The pastor must have been eloquent and have spoken with profound conviction, for the federates who were listening to him began to weep, then seized and embraced him.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
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 Fleury de Chaboulon, Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron
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 Melville, Herman
The national guard comprises at this time 110,000 registered members, besides 10,000 gendarmes and federates.
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Durand, John
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 Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
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
Speaking to the BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg programme, Mr Karp argued that patients' data would be safe if Palantir won the contract for the planned federated data platform.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 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 Dumas, Alexandre
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
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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.
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The federating of England and her colonies would bind them together in much the same way that our United States are bound together.
From The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, November 4, 1897, No. 52 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Bishop, Julia Truitt