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confederate

[kuhn-fed-er-it, -fed-rit, kuhn-fed-uh-rayt] / kənˈfɛd ər ɪt, -ˈfɛd rɪt, kənˈfɛd əˌreɪt /




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Grace Soens, who plays June, Marisol’s confederate at work, and Jack Sharpe, who takes on the role of Lenny, June’s mentally disturbed brother, expand this unstable world, where it’s hard to know who to trust.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The first march I ever attended was a protest in January 2000, to bring down the confederate flag from the top of the South Carolina State House.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2022

The bombastic Mayor Shinn of Jefferson Mays and overdecorated Mrs. Shinn of Jayne Houdyshell are turned into veritable sight gags; Shuler Hensley’s Marcellus, Hill’s confederate, is made to appear a witless errand boy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022

For example, in the “door holding” experiment, a white or Black confederate followed students as they entered a campus building.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2021

Housemaid, nurse, mother, confederate, counselor, chef—what ten thousand things was Madame Manec to Etienne?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

A perennial target of assassins, James survived the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes and confederates hoped to blow up Parliament.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025

The feds identified seven NBA games in 2023 and 2024, including the 2023 game in which Rozier allegedly tipped confederates to his decision to bench himself.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

Indeed, Magliocca testified it was understood the goal of the provision was to keep a wide range of former confederates out of public office in the years after the war.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2023

The affidavit, which was sworn to on Aug. 5, also noted that the F.B.I. had “not yet identified all potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”

From New York Times ● Aug. 26, 2022

And loyal confederates, Hamlet and I never revealed that we were authors of this tragicomedy.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

While the proposed project site is just south of the Yakama Reservation, it is part of the confederated tribes’ vast ancestral homelands.

From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2023

Gorbachev, who struggled to form even a loosely confederated union out of the fifteen Soviet republics, blamed Yeltsin and the leaders of Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and Belarus for plotting illegally to dissolve the bloc.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 3, 2016

President Barack Obama has approved federal assistance for Okanogan County and the Colville confederated tribes to help repair or replace public infrastructure lost in this summer’s wildfires.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 20, 2014

It was issued the year before the Constitutional Convention that would send the confederated former colonies into the epic called the United States of America. 

From Forbes ● Aug. 18, 2014

But it must not be forgotten that the State of Connecticut is a free, sovereign and independent State,—that the United States are a Confederacy of States,—that we are a confederated and not a consolidated Republic.

From Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York by A. F. Warburton

In Washington, Bosnian Croats and Muslims signed the constitution of a new federated state, confederating it with Croatia.

From Time Magazine Archive

A combine "conspiring, combining, confederating, agreeing and cooperating between or among themselves."

From Time Magazine Archive

The work of confederating the British American Provinces was one of compromise among the statesmen, the political parties and the people concerned.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent

He entertained a plan of confederating the colonies together, and aspired to become himself the viceroy of the contemplated union.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

No: it is between him and them combining and confederating, on one side, and the public revenues, and the miserable inhabitants of a ruined country, on the other.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke


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