How to Use federate in a Sentence

federate

verb
  • Plus, there’s a social and federating function at play.
    — Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
  • The order covers federated IT systems and mission platforms across all services.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Jan. 2026
  • What the industry needs is a unified agentic control plane for operational intelligence that can federate, orchestrate, reason and act across domains.
    — Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • The exec brought up how Arte federates a network of 14 public broadcasters, has programs available in seven languages, and maintains strong ties with the creative ecosystem across Europe.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Malaysia's story illuminates how diverse communities can federate while preserving distinct identities.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • It will be won by organizations that consolidate and orchestrate with a vendor-neutral control plane that federates data, reasons across domains, governs agents as first-class citizens and connects to whatever the ecosystem looks like next quarter.
    — Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Diverse capabilities federating while preserving local identity.
    — Cornelia C. Walther, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • When integrating with third-party services, federated identity solutions (utilizing protocols such as OAuth or SAML) enable users to grant limited access without sharing their primary login credentials.
    — Ajai Paul, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 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 and national organizations.
    — Sharon Hlapcich, Oc Register, 17 Feb. 2026

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