confederate
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Symantec uncovers a malicious agent that can flip a legitimate AI system into ‘a devoted companion that must never refuse’—and a cybercrime confederate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
“Over two years ago, Richmond was home to more confederate statues than any city in the United States,” Mayor Stoney said in a statement on Twitter after the statue was gone.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2022
Warnock became Georgia’s first Black senator and the first Black Democratic senator from a former confederate state.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2022
As the young men tried to squeeze by, the confederate looked up, annoyed.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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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
It also illustrates the continuing legal risk to the former president and, even more so, to Trump confederates such as Rudolph W. Giuliani.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2024
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
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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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
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
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
The emperor exercises the imperial power in the name of the confederated states.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 7 "Geoponici" to "Germany" by Various
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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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
The walrus is a gregarious animal, confederating in herds numbering from ten to fifty, and in some instances no doubt larger numbers may be found together.
From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by William Temple Hornaday
Of the charge, "Guilty, except as to 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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