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federate

[fed-uh-reyt, 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

The rest of the peoples of Italy, Italian, Greek, Illyrian and Etruscan, formed the federate allies of Rome—the socii Italici.

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

The few hundred federates with whom he was, and in whose ranks were men of many different battalions, were charged with the defense of the entire quartier, from the quai to the Rue Saint-Dominique.

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

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 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 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 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

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

These are funds and federated or independent direction of their use.

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

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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