as in to manipulate
to divide (a state, school district, etc.) into political units that give one group an unfair advantage
gerrymandering urban districts to give rural voters a majority
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Recent Examples of gerrymander
This is all in response to an effort by Texas Republicans to gerrymander their map to expand the Republicans’ current 25-13 edge to 30-8 over Democrats.
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David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
President Trump and his allies have pushed GOP lawmakers to engage in gerrymandering to prevent Democrats from taking control of the House during the final two years of his presidency.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
There has been an enormous amount of press coverage of the battle over gerrymandering in the last month.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Of course, the ideal is nationwide redistricting reform, like the For the People Act, to end gerrymandering once and for all.
—Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
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David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 5 Sep. 2025
President Trump and his allies have pushed GOP lawmakers to engage in gerrymandering to prevent Democrats from taking control of the House during the final two years of his presidency.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
There has been an enormous amount of press coverage of the battle over gerrymandering in the last month.
—Tom Rogers, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025
Of course, the ideal is nationwide redistricting reform, like the For the People Act, to end gerrymandering once and for all.
—Will Rodriguez-Kennedy, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gerrymander
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In this approach, quantum information is encoded in various properties of photons, and computation is performed by manipulating these photonic states using optical components.—
Gil Press,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025
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Tahoe is obviously getting more aggressive with icon-shape enforcement, up to and including automatically manipulating them and sentencing them to icon jail.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
15 Sep. 2025
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North was convicted in 1989 on three felony charges for helping to arrange the illicit sale of weapons to Iran and divert the proceeds to fund a secret war against anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.—
Josh Meyer,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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Wegovy injection pens arranged in Waterbury, Vermont, US, on Monday, April 28, 2025.—
Karen Gilchrist,Katrina Bishop,
CNBC,
10 Sep. 2025
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Its Office for Civil Rights investigates allegations at schools and negotiates corrective actions.—
Fred Clasen-Kelly,
ABC News,
11 Sep. 2025
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Looking forward, 185 countries are negotiating a global plastics treaty aimed at ending plastic pollution by 2040, and to promote a closed loop approach, phasing out unnecessary plastics and encouraging the use of sustainable alternatives.—
Forbes.com,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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Head coach Kevin O’Connell tends to scheme free releases for Jefferson, but Terrell can be sticky down the field.—
Alec Lewis,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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This is only Year 1, and while the Patriots are working, scheming and practicing to win every Sunday, their biggest games are well ahead of them.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Sep. 2025
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That insight has guided the team at Typhur, headquartered in San Jose at the heart of Silicon Valley, a location that inspires them to engineer precision with intuitive design.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
12 Sep. 2025
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The reality is, most commercial language models are generally engineered to always please users, producing answers sometimes at the expense of truth.—
Scott Zoldi,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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