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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

If the three churches of North Bloomfield should federate as those of Greene Township have done, doubtless their people could raise $1,500 for the support of the ministry.

From Six Thousand Country Churches by Charles Otis Gill

The federates of the departments were ranged in order under their banners; the deputies of the army and the national guards were in their ranks, and under their ensigns.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis) Mignet

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

Have the federates, the national guard, and all true Frenchmen, refused to shed their blood in defence of the glory, the honour, and the independence of their country?

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

The day before the evacuation of Petersburg by the Con federates, Grant was urged to order an attack upon the Confederate positions.

From Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) by William Henry Hurlbert

From all points of the compass federates are arriving.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

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

Several provinces federated together upon a republican plan.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Eug?ne Sue

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

Women were welcomed only by the National Labor Union, established in Baltimore in 1866 for the purpose of federating all unions.

From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz


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