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
They’ve been gerrymandered out of existence.
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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
Gray, who has built a reputation as a progressive activist, had previously filed to run for the 5th District before flipping to the 4th District after Republican lawmakers gerrymandered Kansas City.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
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
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
Gray, who has built a reputation as a progressive activist, had previously filed to run for the 5th District before flipping to the 4th District after Republican lawmakers gerrymandered Kansas City.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gerrymandered
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Gas prices can be manipulated by war, the market or the discretion of how much oil companies want to refine.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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And getting back to the Jewish donors who supposedly manipulated Ferguson’s efforts to block mid-cycle congressional districting.—
Howard Libit,
Baltimore Sun,
3 May 2026
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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Association of Educators vice president and art teacher Rae LeGrone stood with a clipboard, alongside Erin DeMund, a teacher at Oaklawn Language Academy who had arranged a similar, though smaller, demonstration a week earlier in Charlotte.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
2 May 2026
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Access to private tours of the museums can be arranged, as well as private transportation around the islands.—
Lale Arikoglu,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 May 2026
Verb
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These are trade-offs that can be negotiated, at both the local and national levels, to benefit our communities.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
New Yorker,
7 May 2026
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His presence caused periodic traffic jams as Washington police closed lanes and negotiated with him.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
6 May 2026
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Heizer specifically engineered it so that future humans, scavenging for scrap in a postapocalyptic scenario, would be forced to turn back from his monument empty-handed.—
Olivia Kan-Sperling,
Artforum,
2 May 2026
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Structural systems governability determines how easily governance can be built, whether workflows decompose naturally into discrete, measurable, audit-ready steps, or deliver value through fluid judgment that must be engineered into structure.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
2 May 2026
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