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Recent Examples of federate Collaborate Securely With Federated Learning Models Leverage federated learning to train machine learning models collaboratively across institutions without sharing raw data. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025 Key steps include: Building A Robust Data Ecosystem Determining the optimal data ecosystem architecture, whether centralized or federated, involves balancing coordination with domain-specific needs, governance and scalability to maximize data value. Tina Chakrabarty, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025 The nonprofit Ebell Club was chartered and federated on March 9, 1984, and since that time members have raised more than $300,000 for numerous philanthropies both within the community, as well as national organizations. Sharon Hlapcich, Orange County Register, 20 Feb. 2025 Knowledge graphs can also federate multiple databases together, natively bringing together disparate data. Brian Platz, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024 There are also cases where the management and execution of that can be highly federated, and there might be multiple people. Megan Poinski, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024 Out with the old broken model, in with the New A fundamental shift away from centralized and federated identity systems is long overdue. Alastair Johnson, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024 And then that means if a lot of people are federating and self-hosting, that ecosystem can just shift around piece by piece to the services that haven’t shut down their APIs and that haven’t let users feel betrayed. Nilay Patel, The Verge, 25 Mar. 2024 Instead of the audio for voice posts, Meta considered federating text transcripts, but ultimately decided to stick with sharing the audio. Reece Rogers, WIRED, 2 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for federate
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  • Grossi said Iran is legally obligated to cooperate with the IAEA under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
    Jon Gambrell, Fortune, 26 June 2025
  • Politically, since its founding in 1981, the NCRI has demonstrated, as the broadest and longest-lasting political coalition in Iranian history, its readiness to cooperate with all political groups and currents committed to democracy, human rights, secularism, and a republican form of governance.
    Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 25 June 2025
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  • But the urge to denigrate public education has become one of those odd obsessions that unite the nutty left and kooky right.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
  • The city united and made a great case for the festival, said Josh Heuser, co-founder of the city's popular light festival Blink and the underground bar and theater Ghost Baby.
    Randy Tucker, The Enquirer, 3 July 2025
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  • Weekly analysis and insights from Asia’s largest economy in your inbox Subscribe now On Wednesday, Li urged global business leaders and senior government representatives to collaborate and avoid turning trade into a political or security issue.
    Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 26 June 2025
  • To be released this Friday, the album also includes veterans (David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, John Hiatt, Steve Earle) and newcomers (Charley Crockett, Molly Tuttle), all collaborating with Louisiana musicians on renditions of Chenier tunes.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 25 June 2025

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“Federate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/federate. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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