How to Use federated in a Sentence

federated

adjective
  • Most Americans know India is the largest democracy on earth, but fewer are aware that the country is, like the U.S., a federated union of states—28 of them.
    Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Another fun quirk of federated media is that, even if you’re logged in to Mastodon on your own instance, you are not logged in on any of the others in a way that does not make sense if you’re not used to it.
    Nathan Edwards, The Verge, 21 Sep. 2023
  • That might be good news for Mastodon, another Twitter wannabe and one of the few social networks to embrace a federated model.
    Hiawatha Bray, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • Instead, anyone can launch a Mastodon server in their home and connect it to others to create a federated social network.
    Michael Kan, PCMAG, 26 July 2023
  • That makes this a Gmail-proprietary feature, which is a problem for federated emails that are expected to work with a million different clients and providers.
    Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Emmert even brought up the idea of a federated model, similar to the U.S. Olympic Committee, where each sport is managed by its own national governing body.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 15 July 2021
  • Don’t give free access just based on the fact that someone is authenticated with a username and password or some federated or social login.
    Ido Safruti, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • What’s uncertain is how the federated social network, if it were adopted under Musk, will function in practice.
    WIRED, 2 Nov. 2022
  • The result is that the leaders in federated learning are the existing large technology companies.
    Jeff Wong, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Many businesses can find a balance by working within a federated model in which a core group of experts works at the center while project teams work within decentralized divisions to stay on top of day-to-day business demands.
    Arvind Prabhakar, Forbes, 15 June 2022
  • Researchers hope to use a federated learning approach to train future crop-yield models, which would allow the training to update a global model while keeping different sources of data isolated from one another.
    IEEE Spectrum, 10 July 2023
  • Since, the federated and disjointed nature of our public health system, politicization of the pandemic, and poor science literacy have led to mixed and garbled public health messaging that has often obscured efforts to decipher what’s safe.
    Abdul El-Sayed, The New Republic, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The company said its new technology, called federated learning of cohorts, will track people in cohorts and leaves individuals anonymous.
    Fortune, 4 Mar. 2021
  • For one the experience is less immediately intuitive to a centralized platform due to its federated nature.
    Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Unlike the centralized model of Twitter and virtually every other social media platform, Mastodon is built on a federated model of independent servers, known as instances.
    Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Bluesky, another Twitter competitor that’s still in private beta, has developed the AT Protocol, which also allows for federated social networks.
    Harry Guinness, Popular Science, 12 July 2023
  • Although Bluesky is currently hosted on only one server under the control of the Bluesky team, its intention is to eventually become a decentralized protocol for a multiplicity of federated servers with a variety of different moderation practices.
    Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 2 May 2023
  • Lippert looks forward to a kind of federated supercomputing, where the several European supercomputer centers will use their huge machines in concert, distributing calculations to the appropriate supercomputers via a service hub.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Specifically, the federal government should establish a federated and distributed model that identifies and connects as many public and private or proprietary genomic and biological databases as possible.
    Tara O'Toole, STAT, 22 Feb. 2023
  • This makes error correction another key design requirement for new, updated, or federated collections of biological data.
    Tara O'Toole, STAT, 22 Feb. 2023

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