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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
confederate .
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Examples
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It has become a Saudi palatinate, a confederated province of Saudi Arabia, a pocket-size weasel state from which all journalists should in future use the dateline: Manama, Occupied Bahrain.
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The interlocking ways in which a vast country shaped an individual poet, even as he shaped its contentious, loosely confederated poets, is the subject of Aidan Wasley's "The Age of Auden."
Keeper of the Affirming Flame Brad Leithauser 2011
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Except they re-confederated in 2003, the current flag is based on the confederate national flag.
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Another thing: by the time of the partitions, the Poles had come up with a solution to the liberum veto through the mechanism of the confederated sejm, in which there was no veto (sort of like a modified Committee of the Whole to expedite parliamentary business).
Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010
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At times, Mr. Chávez and top Cuban officials have talked of melding the two countries into a single confederated state—an unpopular idea among most Venezuelans.
In Cuba, a Prayer for Chávez José de Córdoba 2011
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Joe Wilson wing nut from the GOP confederated Taliban state of south carolina.
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It has become a Saudi palatinate, a confederated province of Saudi Arabia, a pocket-size weasel state from which all journalists should in future use the dateline: Manama, Occupied Bahrain.
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Except they re-confederated in 2003, the current flag is based on the confederate national flag.
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Another thing: by the time of the partitions, the Poles had come up with a solution to the liberum veto through the mechanism of the confederated sejm, in which there was no veto (sort of like a modified Committee of the Whole to expedite parliamentary business).
Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010
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Finally, Polk admonished his countrymen on the urgency of preserving the confederated union, “to which we are so much indebted for our growth in population and wealth, and for all that constitutes us a great and happy nation.”
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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