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[dis-trikt] / ˈdɪs trɪkt /


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US district judge Rita Lin said in the ruling that citing national security "is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics".

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

In September, the Orange County district attorney’s office will host an e-bike buyback program, offering anywhere from $200 to $1,000 for each, no questions asked.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

The district attorney’s office hopes to file criminal fraud charges by the end of the year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Last week, the Newport-Mesa Unified School District became the first district in the state to ban electric vehicles for some of its students.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

So, without directions of any sort, the Baudelaire children set off for the city’s banking district in hopes of finding Mr. Poe.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

As rescue teams scoured for survivors in the flood-ravaged districts, families moved between hospitals and police helpdesks, desperately hoping for word on those missing.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

The company is still facing thousands of lawsuits that have been filed by school districts and individual plaintiffs alleging social-media harms.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 26, 2026

The company is also staring down lawsuits from people and school districts that predated the settlement and are set to go to trial soon, the Times reports.

From Slate Aug. 26, 2026

Bundelkhand, a semi-arid region that spans several districts in the states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is notoriously drought-prone.

From BBC Aug. 24, 2026

He had been a superintendent for a number of rural school districts in Mississippi, where he had spent his life forming busing systems and magnet schools to better integrate the black and white students.

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson

“Plaintiffs’ novel proposal is that we dismantle Georgia’s statewide PSC system and replace it with an entirely new districted system,” the court wrote.

From Seattle Times Nov. 24, 2023

As school districted switched to distance learning in March, the nonprofit Partnership for Connecticut spent $24 million to provide 60,000 laptops to high school students.

From Washington Times Dec. 2, 2020

Is choosing a more diverse school worth requesting the transfer, or should we stick with our districted school?

From Slate Jan. 19, 2020

Less important but still a concern: Only one of our daughter’s friends from day care will attend the school that we are districted for.

From Slate Jan. 19, 2020

Again, in the machinery of the internal-revenue laws all these States are districted, not as "Territories," but as "States."

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 6, part 2: Andrew Johnson by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson

The justices further acknowledged the emergence of robust two-party competition and the increasing sophistication of computer-generated districting maps.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 29, 2026

In 1986, the court articulated a test for determining when election districting is racially discriminatory.

From Seattle Times Jun. 12, 2023

“A districting plan must comply with the broader constitutional standard of upholding the right to vote on equal terms and to substantially equal voting power,” Associate Justice Robin Hudson wrote in the prevailing opinion.

From Washington Times Dec. 16, 2022

“I see the argument on the other side — a state interest in independent districting commissions. But as I read this, it is about districting in Los Angeles,” Chemerinsky said via email.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 7, 2022

Of course it was difficult to determine routes of travel there, and to a large extent that had to be left to the supervisors, but they merely revised our original districting.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Francis Rolt-Wheeler




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