Thesaurus results for GERRYMANDERED

gerrymandered

verb

past tense of gerrymander

as in manipulated

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 gerrymandered The state is already, according to independent analyses, gerrymandered in a way that produces extra Republican victories. —

Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026 Gaskill had shown a map of congressional seats across the country, highlighting those held by Democrats in New England and Illinois, and stated that this was evidence that Democrats gerrymandered, and therefore, so should Indiana Republicans. —

Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025 Republicans gerrymandered Athens-Clarke to include one strongly Democratic district, parceling out the rest of the county into three seats intended to be Republican. —

CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025 Southern states Louisiana’s district lines are under scrutiny from challengers questioning whether the state has racially gerrymandered by creating too many majority-Black districts. —

David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 5 Dec. 2025 That’s because the Republicans had gerrymandered the house in many critical swing states, such as Pennsylvania and Virginia. —

Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025 Republicans, however, have called Democrats hypocritical, noting that several of the states to which Texas Democrats fled during their quorum break were ones that have been gerrymandered. —

Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 26 Aug. 2025 The Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. —

NBC news, 24 Aug. 2025

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One of the images – which was flagged during a CNN check as being potentially AI-manipulated – showed the girl, believed to be named Kim Ju Ae and in her early teens, firing a sniper rifle.

— Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 28 Feb. 2026
The boarding crew noticed panels containing the vessel’s bilge pump were manipulated, raising suspicion it was being used for smuggling, the complaint states.

— David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026