as in manipulating
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 gerrymandering
The veto referendum will remain a viable option for gerrymandering opponents unless lawmakers retroactively add an emergency clause to Deaton’s bill.
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Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
And some blue states have been more vigorous about gerrymandering.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 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
And gerrymandering — the original Massachusetts political Gerry who inaugurated the practice — arrived over 200 years ago.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
And some blue states have been more vigorous about gerrymandering.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 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
And gerrymandering — the original Massachusetts political Gerry who inaugurated the practice — arrived over 200 years ago.
—Steven Zeitchik, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gerrymandering
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With the technology becoming increasingly adept at creating convincing crowd scenes, manipulating visuals has never been easier.—
Chloe Veltman,
NPR,
3 Oct. 2025
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Julie asked Jimmy Heagerty about where things stood with Mickey Lee, and Jimmy said Morgan did a great job manipulating Mickey into sending him home.—
David Wysong,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
29 Sep. 2025
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Elite Asian Matchmaker is a white-glove service that handles all the logistics, from vetting potential matches to arranging dates, allowing clients to simply show up and enjoy the experience.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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The tour company optimized the schedule to match workers' paid time off, by arranging departure days scheduled around holidays or weekends, which minimizes the days a traveler would need to take from work.—
Michael Cappetta,
Travel + Leisure,
1 Oct. 2025
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While major pro sports leagues feature a stable arrangement, with unionized players negotiating a CBA and collectively bargained terms exempt from antitrust scrutiny, the opposite is true in college sports.—
Michael McCann,
Sportico.com,
4 Oct. 2025
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The official also said that a negotiating team was getting ready to travel, but there was no date specified.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
4 Oct. 2025
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Chris Shula has been terrific through the first four weeks of this season, engineering a Rams defense that ranks in the top 10 in just about every category.—
Nate Atkins,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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To address this, the research team focused on engineering the electrolyte’s co-solvent.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Sep. 2025
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“Gerrymandering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gerrymandering. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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