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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
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.
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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
Americans are divided on that topic, with 55% saying historical figures that supported the confederacy and racial segregation should not be memorialized in a June 2024 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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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
Americans are divided on that topic, with 55% saying historical figures that supported the confederacy and racial segregation should not be memorialized in a June 2024 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for confederacy
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In San Diego Unified School District, the union announced a one-day strike while negotiations were ongoing.—
Jemma Stephenson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Jan. 2026
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The union said nurses are committed to bargaining daily to settle the dispute.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Jan. 2026
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Trump has formed close alliances with conservative tech figures, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and investor David Sacks, who serves as the White House AI and crypto czar.—
Joseph Menn The Washington Post,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
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But with his drive to take over Greenland throwing the European and American alliance in disarray — and Japanese bonds plunging on concerns over the country’s finances — the calm abruptly snapped.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
20 Jan. 2026
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The debate within the Democratic coalition is already bigger and louder, dividing moderates in swing states from progressives elated by Mamdani's rocket to victory in the nation's largest city.—
Susan Page,
USA Today,
12 Jan. 2026
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The coalition behind #BeGood includes Maremoto, Move On, National Domestic Workers Alliance, Working Families Power and leaders from every sector of the entertainment industry are showing support.—
Glamour,
Glamour,
11 Jan. 2026
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Despite three rounds of negotiations by the Minimum Wage Determination Commission, which typically includes representatives from the government, employers and workers, the meetings were boycotted by Türk-İş, Turkey’s largest labor confederation.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
31 Dec. 2025
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Two teams in the same confederation — the regional groups FIFA splits international teams into — cannot be placed into the same group, except for the European confederation UEFA, which has more teams than there are groups.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
5 Dec. 2025
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At one time, there could be as many as 12,000 of them per square foot of soil, the federation said.—
Saleen Martin,
USA Today,
22 Jan. 2026
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Those guidelines remained in place until 2021, when the IOC announced international federations for each sport should adopt their own participation rules.—
Elizabeth Wolfe,
CNN Money,
18 Jan. 2026
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John has already been linked to any number of head coaching vacancies around the league.—
Elliott Teaford,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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Hall earned two of his three Vezina Trophy honors as the league's top goalie with Chicago, in 1963 and '67.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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“Confederacy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confederacy. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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