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
The younger Mr. Landrieu confronted the nation’s history of racism himself when he spearheaded the removal of four confederate monuments in New Orleans in 2017.
From New York Times ● Nov. 21, 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
We celebrate the notice of emancipation finally reaching Texas to end slavery in the last confederate state in 1865.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 17, 2022
As they walked down the hallway with their questionnaire, a man—a confederate of the experimenters—walked past them and pulled out a drawer in one of the filing cabinets.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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The case against Rocha Moya and his alleged confederates sent shock waves through the country’s political and law enforcement establishments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Worse news: He also won’t be bringing in you or any of your confederates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
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 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
And loyal confederates, Hamlet and I never revealed that we were authors of this tragicomedy.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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Wayne commanded Army forces during the Northwest Indian War, a confrontation on the American frontier that ended with the Battle of Fallen Timbers, a key victory over confederated Native forces that allied with the British.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 2, 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
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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In the case of Lewis Payne, 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
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
On November 27, he issued a proclamation, stating that sundry persons were confederating and conspiring together to begin a military expedition or enterprise against the dominions of Spain.
From Union and Democracy by Allen Johnson
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