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confederacy

[kuhn-fed-er-uh-see, -fed-ruh-see] / kənˈfɛd ər ə si, -ˈfɛd rə si /


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In the confederacy, Georgia enacted a similar 15-day grace period, while Florida law provided an extra 20 days.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026

“This was one way of shifting enslaved labor from agriculture to industry, a necessity for the confederacy during the Civil War,” says Lichtenstein.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 19, 2025

Known as “Lament for Confederation,” it was a landmark moment in First Nations history, calling out the meaning of the confederacy and the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 5, 2024

This confederacy of society’s richest and most powerful people is determined to ruin Benny’s life.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

The Haudenosaunee people today retain a fully functioning confederacy, similar to what they had before European arrival.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Among township societies such as the Iroquois, groups of towns joined to form political confederacies.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

There was talk that states might further align themselves into various geographical confederacies and suffer the obvious inefficiencies and jealousies inherent in such arrangements.

From Salon ● May 10, 2020

The Chinese empire believed itself to be the sole legitimate political entity, while to its north and west tribal confederacies fought each other with glee.

From The Guardian ● Sep. 9, 2016

However, much of the land in the American British Empire remained under the control of powerful native confederacies, which made any claims of British mastery beyond the Atlantic coastal settlements hollow.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

The alliance under the lead of William III. barely sustained itself against Louis XIV., though William was the ablest statesman in Europe, and had been trained in the tactics of confederacies from his cradle.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 by Various


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