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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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  • Other mothers told me that some of their darkest moments came when their own body didn’t cooperate.
    Jessica Slice, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025
  • If his health cooperates and his development continues, Fashanu could be a huge part of the Jets’ future.
    Nick Baumgardner, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
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  • Republican leaders in the House worked to unite their divided party behind the budget plan this week before Congress leaves town for a two-week recess.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2025
  • California has 43 Democratic House members, who tend to be united in questioning the Trump tariff policies.
    David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • The artist collaborated with organizers at the foundation to plan the sweeping showcase of his work.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Uchis also took the oppurtunity to thank Jennie for inviting her to collaborate on Ruby.
    Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2025

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

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