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
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
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
A perennial target of assassins, James survived the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes and confederates hoped to blow up Parliament.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
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 newly released affidavit said that federal agents 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
After some successes the confederated forces were defeated, and the Protestants lost all that they had acquired since the peace of Augsburg.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger
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
The eastern frontier was faintly marked by the mutual fears of the Germans and the Sarmatians, and was often confounded by the mixture of warring and confederating tribes of the two nations.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
After harboring this thought for a day or two longer, he charged her with the crime of confederating to injure Duffel, as already related.
From Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival by Alvin Addison
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