confederate

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

The bombastic Mayor Shinn of Jefferson Mays and overdecorated Mrs. Shinn of Jayne Houdyshell are turned into veritable sight gags; Shuler Hensley’s Marcellus, Hill’s confederate, is made to appear a witless errand boy.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 11, 2022

The “focal” behavior, which both the confederate and an onlooking researcher recorded, was holding the door.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2021

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

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

But Prospero is jolted into an awareness that Caliban and his confederates are plotting “a foul conspiracy” against his life, and he abruptly ends the show.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025

The provision was mainly used after the Civil War to keep former confederates out of government.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 18, 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

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

Here Aguinaldo seems to have conceived an ambition to free the native races of the archipelago, and form a republic of the confederated islands.

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah

In Washington, Bosnian Croats and Muslims signed the constitution of a new federated state, confederating it with Croatia.

From Time Magazine Archive

A combine "conspiring, combining, confederating, agreeing and cooperating between or among themselves."

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Cunningham, John

Other tribes in large numbers were standing in precisely the same relations in different parts of the continent without confederating.

From Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Morgan, Lewis H.

In turn, the States were now to complete the Central Government by confederating themselves under a written document.

From The United States of America, Part 1 by Sparks, Edwin Erle