federate
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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
Malaysia, a state scheduled to be born this month, will federate Malaya, North Borneo, Singapore and Sarawak in an anti-Communist grouping.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I do not see any reasons why two or more churches of Congregational form of government should not federate, but it would be difficult to federate with Episcopal form of church government.”
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Gill, Charles Otis
The national guard comprises at this time 110,000 registered members, besides 10,000 gendarmes and federates.
From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by Durand, John
This had perhaps decided the fate of the pastor's house, when the sergeant of federates interfered, and addressing the officer said to him, "I have received orders to stop the fire just here."
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
A cosmopolitan, a catholic man; who, being such, ties himself to no narrow tailor or teacher, but federates, in heart as in costume, something of the various gallantries of men under various suns.
From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman
The federates stopped before this man, whose simplicity rendered him heroic.
From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various
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 Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)
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
In the long run the officials who now entertain objections to the federated church will doubtless not permit them to stand in the way of rural church progress.
From Six Thousand Country Churches by Gill, Charles Otis
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
Ghana feels free to consider federating with Guinea, a former colony of France.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, honestly, I could not exactly make out what they were federating about, and what they were going to do when they got federated.
From That Fortune by Warner, Charles Dudley
