How to Use gerrymandering in a Sentence

gerrymandering

noun
  • What is racial gerrymandering, and what does the law say about it?
    Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 May 2025
  • That cut both ways in the gerrymandering wars.
    David Weigel, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
  • There is no way pat, the wine should be ruling on his dad’s gerrymandering case.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 10 May 2022
  • Whether the mid-decade gerrymandering will work is an open question.
    Peter Slevin, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In terms of racial gerrymandering, the Supreme Court has said that this can be challenged.
    Rebecca Schneid, Time, 21 July 2025
  • Everything that was there to guard against this type of gerrymandering is destroyed.
    Cecilia Vega, CBS News, 10 May 2026
  • The net effect of all the gerrymandering won't be fully known until elections are held.
    Christian Orozco, NBC news, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Clearly, this is not a vote to support or repeal gerrymandering.
    Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Democrats are fast losing the gerrymandering wars.
    Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 13 May 2026
  • So, while most Texans might be able to vote, their voice has been rendered silent because of gerrymandering.
    Harrison Mantas, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The House last year passed a bill to protect voting rights and restrict gerrymandering.
    David Leonhardt, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2022
  • But two Supreme Court cases in the past decade have also changed the guardrails for gerrymandering.
    Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2021
  • So how significant, how big a deal is this gerrymandering?
    Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 14 May 2026
  • Partisan gerrymandering will become the supreme law of the land.
    Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • If that were true, the courts could not have granted remedies for school segregation or racial gerrymandering.
    Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 15 May 2025
  • And one of the major provisions of the bill was no more partisan gerrymandering.
    Kevin Townsend, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • This gerrymandering war and what the Supreme Court has done could end up protecting some of his—and a lot of his—power.
    Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026
  • If the Constitution is truly the law of the land, the gerrymandering must stop.
    Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 9 May 2026
  • That is why critics of gerrymandering are right to regard it as antidemocratic.
    Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • New York state law prohibits partisan gerrymandering and mid-decade changes except in the case of court orders.
    Benjamin Siegel, ABC News, 21 Aug. 2025
  • The two that come to mind are the gerrymandering of congressional districts and the role of money in politics.
    Foreign Affairs, 20 Sep. 2016
  • New York also promised to respond to the gerrymandering efforts.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Laimins spoke directly about the main problem with gerrymandering.
    Hank Beckman, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The court’s ruling wasn’t about partisan gerrymandering, per se.
    ABC News, 6 May 2026
  • Bob Cup is the house speaker who did everything possible to thwart the will of the voters on gerrymandering and at years end.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Nov. 2022
  • If the theory is affirmed by the court, gerrymandering is also a top concern for the election experts.
    Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Plus, Democrats had been decrying gerrymandering for years.
    Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 18 Nov. 2025
  • Speaking of which… How might the gerrymandering gamesmanship between the parties play out in the fall?
    Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The existence of states is not a matter of partisan gerrymandering.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022
  • The term gerrymandering is used, with some pejoration, to imply a partisan aim.
    Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 1 May 2026

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