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Federal District
Federal Districtnouna district in which the national government of a country is located, especially one in Latin America.
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federal district
federal districtnounan area used as the seat of central government in a federal system
Federal District
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Example Sentences
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On Tuesday, 250 years after that ride, Judge Charles Breyer of the Federal District Court in San Francisco raised a similar ruckus without ever leaving the bench.
From Salon • Sep. 4, 2025
As the Federal District Court in Maryland explained eight years ago, a “federal court may … issue preservation orders as part of its inherent authority to manage its own proceedings.”
From Slate • Jun. 26, 2025
Federal District Judge James E. Basberg ordered the participants of that chat to save the exchange in its entirety and to turn over their records of it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2025
The 45-month sentence imposed by Judge John D. Bates at a hearing in Federal District Court in Washington was only about a third of the 140 months that the government had initially requested.
From New York Times • May 17, 2024
Aragua has a short coast-line on the Caribbean west of the Federal District, but has no port of consequence.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
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