confederate

“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

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 question was whether the students, who were unaware they were being observed, spontaneously behaved in a positive manner toward the confederate.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2021

As the young men tried to squeeze by, the confederate looked up, annoyed.

From "Outliers" 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 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

The FBI has not identified all “potential criminal confederates nor located all evidence related to its investigation.”

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 27, 2022

And loyal confederates, Hamlet and I never revealed that we were authors of this tragicomedy.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

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

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

The confederated Iroquois were, if possible, to be humbled once for all.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Of the charge, "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 Richardson, James D. (James Daniel)

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.

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 Johnson, Allen