How to Use confederation in a Sentence

confederation

noun
  • No group will have more than one team from the same confederation drawn into it.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
  • No group will have more than one team from the same confederation drawn into it.
    — Miami Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
  • No group will have more than one team from the same confederation drawn into it.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 4 Dec. 2025
  • So far, there has been a healthy spread of power across the confederations.
    — Graham Ruthven, New York Times, 29 June 2026
  • There are six teams from five confederations.
    — Jack Lang, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
  • The sport’s six regional confederations promised to clean up their acts, too.
    — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 15 May 2024
  • And not all teams clinch a World Cup spot by racking up points in confederation play.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
  • And with a spot in the confederation’s title game at stake, both teams — as well as the sport — deserved better.
    — Iliana Limón Romero, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Each confederation was awarded a set number of places based upon its strength.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 June 2025
  • Yes, Europe gets more teams than each of the other five confederations.
    — Brian Straus, SI.com, 8 July 2018
  • Both teams are part of a loose confederation of sandlot squads assembled throughout the south.
    — Michael Hoinski, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
  • And therein lies the problem, as there is no world burpee confederation to say what is and isn’t a real burpee, also known as a squat thrust.
    — Allyson Chiu, ajc, 8 May 2018
  • And day three taught us that the gaps between soccer’s confederations could be narrowing.
    — Duncan Alexander, New York Times, 14 June 2026
  • Those in favor of a one-state solution or a confederation fell by seven points combined.
    — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
  • With the confederation crown at stake, the archrivals meet in the tournament final for the seventh time.
    — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Tying the progression up with a profane confederation of vowels seemed like the sort of thing a solver might enjoy.
    — New York Times, 12 May 2020
  • Not the self, not society – but the little malleable confederation that lies between the two.
    — Charles Finch, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
  • And the confederation provides equipment for city-run classes that started this year, with some 50 kids and teens.
    — David Biller and Mauricio Savarese, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • The number of teams each confederation sends varies, as do the particulars of the qualifying process.
    — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Blatter often had to yield to lesser chiefs, such as the heads of the continental confederations, in order to maintain his grip on power.
    — Sam Knight, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • How many places are awarded to each continental confederation?
    — Theo Lloyd-Hughes, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2026
  • Australia, part of the Asian confederation since 2006, were a penalty shootout away from making it.
    — SI.com, 27 June 2019
  • Here is how many nations from other confederations will qualify for the 48-team World Cup.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Larger confederations tend to get more representation across the board.
    — ABC News, 20 June 2026
  • The park's centerpiece, a reservoir feeding a rapids course, is used by the Brazilian canoeing confederation to train.
    — David Biller and Mauricio Savarese, Star Tribune, 13 July 2021
  • The pattern had jumped continents and confederations.
    — Bobby Ghosh, Time, 1 June 2026
  • Brazil's soccer confederation, which organizes the country's league, is yet to comment publicly about the incident.
    — ABC News, 17 May 2026
  • América was simply stunning in their confederation campaign.
    — Tamerra Griffin, New York Times, 26 May 2026
  • This loose confederation of frenemies had originated not in Dubai but in the Netherlands.
    — Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The war has also caused fissures within the UAE, a confederation of seven emirates.
    — The Economist, 4 July 2019

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