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federate

[fed-uh-reyt, fed-er-it] / ˈfɛd əˌreɪt, ˈfɛd ər ɪt /


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California’s elderly parole program originates from a federate court ruling aimed at reducing overcrowding in jails and is based in part on studies that show that the risk of recidivism decreases with age.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 25, 2026

The technical term for making social networks interoperable this way is “federation,” and it turns out there are multiple ways sites can federate.

From Seattle Times Feb. 6, 2024

It aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community.

From Forbes Feb. 15, 2013

His plan is to federate Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining British protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland.

From Time Magazine Archive

A second franchise law, the lex Plautia Papiria, helped thin the ranks of the allies by offering Roman citizenship to all citizens of Italian federate communities who would claim it within sixty days.

From A History of Rome to 565 A. D. by Arthur Edward Romilly Boak

It was Servan who proposed forming a camp of twenty thousand federates around Paris.

From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand

The federates, evidently softened and touched by the pastor's despair, remained near him and had pity upon him.

From Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 by Various

In the Rue des Frondeurs they struck up against a communist picket, but the federates, thinking a whole regiment was at hand, took to their heels.

From The Downfall by E. P. Robins

Have the federates, the national guard, and all true Frenchmen, refused to shed their blood in defence of the glory, the honour, and the independence of their country?

From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon

The national guard comprises at this time 110,000 registered members, besides 10,000 gendarmes and federates.

From The French Revolution - Volume 2 by John Durand

The group recommended adopting what they described as a federated model, with a centralized setup and more shared services.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

There have been years of discussions of a federated European Union cloud and talks of what lessened dependence on the whims of American Big Tech companies might mean.

From Barron's Jan. 28, 2026

By February 2023, just one pupil remained on its roll, although that pupil was actually taught at the nearby Sharow Church of England Primary School, which is federated with Skelton Newby Hall.

From BBC May 30, 2023

The report said Meta's new content app would support ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol that powers Twitter-rival Mastodon and other federated apps.

From Reuters Mar. 10, 2023

We have 619 federated clubs showing definite results of their undertakings.

From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress

EU institutions, Kirchick argues, are struggling toward a complex and noble goal: federating 28 countries.

From Slate Apr. 13, 2017

He links the increase to schools federating and becoming academies and to intense pressure over poor results.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2010

In "federating" the labor laws of Mexico, President Fortes Gil aims first to set up a system of federal "labor courts" and "labor judges" with a "Supreme Labor Court" at Mexico City.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jamaica, much the largest and richest of the present federating group, will provide more than half the federation's 2,400,000 population.

From Time Magazine Archive

We told you some time ago about England's idea of federating her colonies.

From The Great Round World And What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, November 4, 1897, No. 52 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Julia Truitt Bishop




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