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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for federate
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  • Sheriff Martinez already is failing to comply with the California Values Act, SB 54, which, since 2018, prohibits local and state law enforcement from cooperating with federal authorities on most immigration enforcement actions.
    Pedro Rios, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 May 2025
  • The police arrived at some point, but Ventura wouldn’t cooperate with the officers, Morgan said.
    Nicki Brown, CNN Money, 19 May 2025
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  • Remarkably, the vote against advancing the bill came after President Donald Trump had called on Republicans in a social media post to unite behind it.
    Kevin Freking, Chicago Tribune, 18 May 2025
  • The sacrificial rituals separated gods and humans but also united them by incorporating the gods into the human system of meat distribution.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 16 May 2025
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  • Britain agreed the most significant reset of ties with the European Union since Brexit on Monday, removing some trade barriers and collaborating on defence to help grow its economy and boost security on the continent.
    Kate Holton, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • The best insights come when data scientists, product managers and marketers collaborate to frame the right questions and interpret the results critically.
    Gunjan Paliwal, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025

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“Federate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/federate. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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