gerrymander
Example Sentences
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On Monday the Court stopped a racial gerrymander in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Alabama can’t use its congressional map with only one majority Black district, reasoning it was likely a discriminatory racial gerrymander that runs afoul of the Voting Rights Act.
From Washington Times • Jun. 8, 2023
Would open nonpartisan primaries using ranked voting eliminate some of the incentives to gerrymander?
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2022
And when you present maps to a court, judges are struggling to identify what’s a gerrymander mathematically—many of them inspect gerrymanders visually and say this just doesn’t pass the smell test.
From Slate • May 24, 2022
It was from this incident that the word "gerrymander," so often heard in politics in these days, took its name.
From The Greater Republic A History of the United States by Morris, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
