How to Use confederation in a Sentence

confederation

noun

• 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
• And not all teams clinch a World Cup spot by racking up points in confederation play.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
• With the confederation crown at stake, the archrivals meet in the tournament final for the seventh time.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2021
• 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
• As for the Gold Cup final, this will be third time since 2005 that Panama has played in the confederation championship game.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2023
• Australia, part of the Asian confederation since 2006, were a penalty shootout away from making it.
  — SI.com, 27 June 2019
• It was replaced in the early 1600s with a splendid edifice that was one of the largest churches in the then-confederation of Poland and Lithuania.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2022
• Yes, Europe gets more teams than each of the other five confederations.
  — Brian Straus, SI.com, 8 July 2018
• The sport’s six regional confederations promised to clean up their acts, too.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 15 May 2024
• 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
• 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
• Both teams are part of a loose confederation of sandlot squads assembled throughout the south.
  — Michael Hoinski, GQ, 19 Apr. 2018
• Not the self, not society – but the little malleable confederation that lies between the two.
  — Charles Finch, USA TODAY, 9 July 2018
• Or Europe’s challenges could be resolved by reducing the EU to a confederation, which is what the European project was in the 1950s.
  — Michael Kimmage, New Republic, 8 Jan. 2018
• But also, credit where its due: Jamaica has been the bright spot of the confederation, qualifying for the knockout round for the first time after a 0-0 draw vs. Brazil in group play.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
• The main union confederations have condemned the reform.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• Sometimes that means such stunts as reprogramming computer systems on a dare, but the loose confederation of about 5,500 hackers isn’t a bunch of bored teens in it for the lulz.
  — Vernon Silver, Bloomberg.com, 27 June 2017
• The war has also caused fissures within the UAE, a confederation of seven emirates.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2019
• Kerr, a member of the Wakato-Tainui tribal confederation, said people are the younger brothers and sisters of other lifeforms like trees, plants and fish.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 18 Feb. 2023
• Canada is in the midst of an impressive run in Concacaf play, which included posting the best record in the confederation en route to qualifying for the World Cup for the first time in 36 years.
  — Jim Reineking, USA TODAY, 18 June 2023
• The number of teams each confederation sends varies, as do the particulars of the qualifying process.
  — Orlando Mayorquin, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2022
• Despite their dominance in the confederation, New Zealand have only recorded two wins in their 13 matches at the Olympics so far.
  — Neel Shelat, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Those in favor of a one-state solution or a confederation fell by seven points combined.
  — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
• Lawmen from elsewhere in the Swiss confederation sought their advice on how to identify witches in their own cities who were thought to be spreading the plague and other diseases.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 27 Oct. 2022
• Around noon the largest union confederation, the Central Obrera Boliviana, broke ranks with the government and asked the president to resign.
  — Alma Guillermoprieto, The New York Review of Books, 5 Nov. 2020
• The Brazilian soccer confederation later said Marcelo only had a back spasm and was fine.
  — Frank Griffiths, Houston Chronicle, 28 June 2018
• The Romans used the name to refer collectively to a confederation of diverse tribes, says Hudson.
  — Carly Silver, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• Burkina Faso has been under military rule since two successive coups in 2022 and is part of a confederation with juntas in neighboring Mali and Niger.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 11 July 2024
• An Israeli-Palestinian confederation would hardly be the first such arrangement.
  — Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024