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Recent Examples of federate 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 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
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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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  • This annual event unites nominees on Broadway to put on a show in just 10 days.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 23 June 2025
  • The Next Earth unites two leading research initiatives–Antikythera’s Planetary Sapience and MIT Architecture’s Climate Work: Un/Worlding the Planet–and examines urgent questions about the future of our planet and the role of architecture within that future.
    Lee Sharrock, Forbes.com, 22 June 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
  • More Michael Tran/FilmMagic His experience echoes decades of collaborating on films like Jurassic Park, Avatar and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.
    Gabriel Snyder, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025

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“Federate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/federate. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.

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