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[dis-trikt] / ˈdɪs trɪkt /


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Thursday marks the fourth anniversary of the crush, which happened when more than 100,000 people went out in Seoul's nightlife district to celebrate Halloween.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

On Monday, a police technology watchdog group sued Park, claiming that her office refused to turn over information related to dozens of Flock devices in her district.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026

Situated along South Tryon Street, the residence is close to the city’s financial district, restaurants, cultural attractions, and entertainment venues.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

The district also had to shelve plans for a new financial literacy program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Ethan goes to my middle school; Brenna goes somewhere else in our district.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

This is particularly silly when you consider the small size of the state—with under 1.5 million residents, it’s split into just two congressional districts.

From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2026

And it’s given itself a fighting chance in six additional districts in Texas, Florida, Ohio and North Carolina.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

However, Bass later rolled back the directive in some areas, including single-family parcels, historic districts and very high fire severity zones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

Protests began outside state schools in the capital, Baku, and in several southern districts including Masally and Jalilabad.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

In some districts the victors ride through the city while the residents cheer.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

“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

How is a state districted for choosing representatives?

From The Government Class Book Designed for the Instruction of Youth in the Principles of Constitutional Government and the Rights and Duties of Citizens. by Andrew W. Young

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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