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Examples of federate in a Sentence
Verb
The independent provinces were federated to form a nation.
in the years following World War II, the U.S. and the nations of western Europe made the decision to federate as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Recent Examples on the Web
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
Keep Them Off Social Media Pew did not ask about such X alternatives as Meta’s Threads—which has seen downloads increase as X’s have waned—the open-source and federated Mastodon and the decentralized platform Bluesky.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
One of Mastodon’s many charming qualities is that, unlike Twitter X, Bluesky, Instagram, and most other social media platforms, the user base is split across thousands of instances, each of which can decide to federate with or block any of the others.
—Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2023
Low-code software improvements and the desire to federate to achieve scale will drive this shift.
—Forrester, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
For a while, many in the industry have discussed the need to coordinate or federate communications across platforms at the server or cloud level.
—Bob O'Donnell, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
The company has also partnered with Fund 101, a structure that federates more than 1,200 intensive care units across 60 countries to foster information sharing and collaboration between the units.
—Fortune, 13 Apr. 2020
Google created federated learning to improve autocorrect on mobile phones.
—Robert C. Miller, STAT, 13 Feb. 2020
Verb
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
Keep Them Off Social Media Pew did not ask about such X alternatives as Meta’s Threads—which has seen downloads increase as X’s have waned—the open-source and federated Mastodon and the decentralized platform Bluesky.
—Rob Pegoraro, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024
One of Mastodon’s many charming qualities is that, unlike Twitter X, Bluesky, Instagram, and most other social media platforms, the user base is split across thousands of instances, each of which can decide to federate with or block any of the others.
—Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2023
Low-code software improvements and the desire to federate to achieve scale will drive this shift.
—Forrester, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
For a while, many in the industry have discussed the need to coordinate or federate communications across platforms at the server or cloud level.
—Bob O'Donnell, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
The company has also partnered with Fund 101, a structure that federates more than 1,200 intensive care units across 60 countries to foster information sharing and collaboration between the units.
—Fortune, 13 Apr. 2020
Google created federated learning to improve autocorrect on mobile phones.
—Robert C. Miller, STAT, 13 Feb. 2020
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“Federate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/federate. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
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federate
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fed·er·ate
ˈfed-ə-ˌrāt
federated; federating
: to join in a federation
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