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 Even in contemporary political and intellectual discourse, there remains an attachment to a particular stupid southern conservatism, the ideocratic confederacy. —

Literary Hub, 17 Feb. 2026 The confederacy of tribes was pressured into ceding lands to the state of New York, and further displaced by ensuing frontier settlement. —

Matthew Smith, The Conversation, 20 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 See All Example Sentences for confederacy

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The union has argued that the language — coupled with an arbitration provision — will limit the use of AI replicas to a handful of edge cases.

— Gene Maddaus, Variety, 5 June 2026
The Boston cop accused of improperly shooting and killing a carjacking suspect pleaded not guilty to manslaughter in a hearing packed by his fellow officers and their union.

— Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 4 June 2026