as in to cooperate
to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members
in the years following World War II, the U.S. and the nations of western Europe made the decision to federate as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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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.
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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
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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The nightclub owner also vowed to cooperate with an investigation spearheaded by a Dominican Republic committee, which reportedly includes local and international experts and investigators.—
Sean Neumann,
People.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Products from Cambodia would face duties of more than 3,500% because its producers elected not to cooperate with the U.S. probe.—
Nichola Groom,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The two sides have tried – and failed – multiple times to reach an agreement to unite the two separate Palestinian territories under one governance structure, with a 2017 agreement quickly folding in violence.—
Ibrahim Dahman,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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Abundance and The Measure of Progress may have separate focuses, but they are united by the notion that the government cannot address today’s problems with yesterday’s institutions and processes.—
Brian Deese,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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For three decades, professor Ken Kosik has been collaborating with researchers in the United States and Colombia to better understand the causes of Alzheimer's.—
Karen Weintraub,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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The two schools have collaborated extensively on research including clean energy and climate change for decades.—
Sonja Sharp,
Los Angeles Times,
25 Apr. 2025
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“Federate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/federate. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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