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
“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
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
Bargh wanted to learn whether the people who were primed with the polite words would take longer to interrupt the conversation between the experimenter and the confederate than those primed with the rude words.
From "Blink" 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
The provision was added to the Constitution after the Civil War to prevent former confederates from returning to their positions in government.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 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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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
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
He showed clearly that wit, confederated with truth, had such fire as authority was not able to resist.
From Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 by J. Bowles (John Bowles) Daly
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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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 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
He would rather take his chances of defeating the King's troops, confederating with other colonies, and securing the aid of one or more of England's enemy nations.
From Bacon's Rebellion, 1676 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
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