Thesaurus results for CONFEDERACY

confederacy

noun

kən-ˈfe-d(ə-)rə-sē

as in union

an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection a confederacy of several small nations who had promised to come to one another's aid if any were attacked

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Recent Examples of confederacy Many people believe the confederacy influenced the drafters of the U.S. Constitution. —

Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2025 The clouds are as much a character in Murphy’s work as the cowboys, though the former are unchanged since the Oceti Sakowin first formed their confederacy. —

Casey Cep, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025 In the sixteenth century, the nomadic, reindeer-herding Sámi people of what’s now northern Sweden and Finland and the Shawnee of the Ohio Valley in North America, who lived in farming villages organized as a confederacy, didn’t necessarily have much in common. —

Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Aug. 2025 The original confederacy consisted of five tribes that had historically been at war with each other – the Oneida, Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca. —

Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 30 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for confederacy

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Noun

Teachers and their unions have long drawn the ire of Republicans for providing large sums of cash to liberal political committees and for allegedly pushing students to the Left.

— Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 27 Feb. 2026
The union agreed to abide by the ruling of the arbitrator, who sided with the owners on the disparaging nature of the public report card releases.

— Nicki Jhabvala, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2026