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 It’s been stacked, and packed, and gerrymandered by Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans. — NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026 Shelton is running in a district that has been gerrymandered since the last election. — Jack Harvel july 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026 It was gerrymandered unbelievably so. — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026 Bowing to Trump, feckless state legislators have unconstitutionally gerrymandered Democratic-leaning congressional districts out of existence. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 May 2026 They’ve been gerrymandered out of existence. — Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2026 Proposition 50, which voters approved in November, gerrymandered some of the state’s congressional districts as California aimed to flip five seats from red to blue in Congress. — Grace Hase, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gerrymandered
  1. manipulated
  2. arranged
  3. negotiated
  4. engineered
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  • From fake praise to manipulated photos, AI is reshaping how hotels market themselves and how travelers make booking decisions.
    — Christopher Elliott, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2026
  • Apple is also adding support for Google's metadata standard, SynthID, for broader AI image identification, so you can be warned when a picture was manipulated or generated with AI.
    — Brian Westover, PC Magazine, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of manipulated
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  • Dogan deliberately arranged for Salah’s medical to take place in the metropolis of Istanbul, over 500 miles (nearly 900km) from Trabzon, so the Egyptian could see how frenzied the welcome would be.
    — Nick Miller, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
  • On Sunday, the Lime Rock Concours and Gathering of the Marques display nearly 1,000 enthusiast cars and motorcycles arranged around the Lime Rock circuit.
    — Mark Maglio, Hartford Courant, 6 Sep. 2026
Definition of arranged
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  • But this is the second consecutive offseason Duren has negotiated for a new deal, and those attempts, thus far, have proven futile.
    — Hunter Patterson, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The deal was negotiated by Edward McCarry and Peter Kelly of Cinema Guild with Hans Broich of Superzoom Film.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of negotiated
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  • The Asus Vivobook 16 is engineered to handle heavy multitasking, document processing, and media streaming with effortless reliability.
    — Juhi Wadia, PC Magazine, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Yup, the bike will be manufactured in China even though it's designed and engineered in its home country, Spain.
    — Bultaco, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of engineered

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