confederate
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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
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
The “focal” behavior, which both the confederate and an onlooking researcher recorded, was holding the door.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 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
But Prospero is jolted into an awareness that Caliban and his confederates are plotting “a foul conspiracy” against his life, and he abruptly ends the show.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
The organizers of that meeting — industry confederates who know both men — hoped that a lunch at Mr. Zucker’s house on Amagansett’s tony Hedges Lane would clear the air.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2023
The corps said it was following a 2021 federal law which governs renaming military bases christened for confederates, including Georgia’s Fort Gordon and Fort Benning.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2023
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
After all, it is the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union, or the PYD, which wants autonomy for the Kurds within a future confederated Syria.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 5, 2015
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
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
I observe that the confederated powers have not yet recognised Monsieur, or D'Artois, as regent, nor made any proclamation in favour of any of the Bourbons; but this negative conduct admits of two different conclusions.
From The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England by Moncure Daniel Conway
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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A combine "conspiring, combining, confederating, agreeing and cooperating between or among themselves."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Of the charge, "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
Other tribes in large numbers were standing in precisely the same relations in different parts of the continent without confederating.
From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis H. Morgan
In confederating under his superintendence all men knew what they were doing.
From Native Races and the War by Josephine E. (Josephine Elizabeth Grey) Butler
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