gerrymandered

past tense of gerrymander

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of gerrymandered 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gerrymandered
Verb
  • In the area there are multiple objects that can be manipulated to cause a distraction — a feature that will be very familiar to fans of the IO Interactive’s Hitman series.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
  • But all of it had been manipulated.
    Felipe Schrieberg, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Polymarket website on a smartphone arranged in Germantown, New York, US, on Tuesday, July 22, 2025.
    Sean Conlon, CNBC, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The split will reverse a massive but largely unsuccessful 2015 merger arranged by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the investment firm 3G Capital, Heinz and Kraft’s owners at the time.
    Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The deal was negotiated between Signature Entertainment’s Acquisitions Executive Max Hart and Kinology’s CEO Grégoire Melin.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Participation alone seems to be the end goal, the assemblage of a cacophony of voices without any avenues to interrogate the way power is shared or negotiated in collective spaces.
    Kate Wagner, Curbed, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This on-the-edge-of-death thriller appears to deliver on every front—from the ever-alluring Fan Bingbing who lends a cool authority Neeson’s stoic presence, to the set pieces engineered to make your palms sweat, to the thread of grief and trauma that gives the action some ballast.
    Travis Bean, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Working closely with Perfect Game’s Tournament Operations team, BatWraps engineered its wraps to meet all bat-use requirements.
    Sportico Staff, Sportico.com, 5 Sep. 2025

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