confederate
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Warnock became Georgia’s first Black senator and the first Black Democratic senator from a former confederate state.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022
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
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
Roth, who had mentored the progress of Lelchuk’s “American Mischief” toward its ultimate success, had once again happened on a compliant confederate.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2021
Divide into groups and read Eli Landers letters from different years comparing changes in attitude for a confederate soldier over time from the beginning of the war to the end of the war.
From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin
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Worse news: He also won’t be bringing in you or any of your confederates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
The FBI has not identified all “potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022
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
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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 Obama has approved federal assistance for Okanogan County and the Colville confederated tribes to help repair or replace public infrastructure.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 20, 2014
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
Here Aguinaldo seems to have conceived an ambition to free the native races of the archipelago, and form a republic of the confederated islands.
From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Hezekiah Butterworth
A combine "conspiring, combining, confederating, agreeing and cooperating between or among themselves."
From Time Magazine Archive
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In Washington, Bosnian Croats and Muslims signed the constitution of a new federated state, confederating it with Croatia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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And dissuading Israel from confederating with the heathen, and in language addressed to all, calling them to the exercise of Covenanting embodied in fearing his name, he commands them to approach him as holy.
From The Ordinance of Covenanting by John Cunningham
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
In the case of Samuel Arnold, the commission, having maturely considered the evidence adduced, finds the accused as follows: Of the specification, "Guilty, except combining, confederating, and conspiring with Edward Spangler; of this, not guilty."
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
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