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
The infamous discussion between three council members and a labor leader focused, after all, on how best to gerrymander the politicians’ districts to benefit them and their Latino allies and hurt their rival colleagues.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2022
When I asked Lewis about this on a 2019 panel at the University of North Carolina campus in Chapel Hill, he worked himself into a moral dudgeon over being accused of a racial gerrymander.
From Salon • Aug. 29, 2021
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.
