Thesaurus results for GERRYMANDERED

gerrymandered

verb

past tense of gerrymander

as in manipulated

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 gerrymandered They’ve been gerrymandered out of existence. —

Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 27 Apr. 2026 Proposition 50, which voters approved in November, gerrymandered some of the state’s congressional districts as California aimed to flip five seats from red to blue in Congress. —

Grace Hase, Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2026 Gray, who has built a reputation as a progressive activist, had previously filed to run for the 5th District before flipping to the 4th District after Republican lawmakers gerrymandered Kansas City. —

Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 26 Mar. 2026 The state is already, according to independent analyses, gerrymandered in a way that produces extra Republican victories. —

Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 7 Jan. 2026 Gaskill had shown a map of congressional seats across the country, highlighting those held by Democrats in New England and Illinois, and stated that this was evidence that Democrats gerrymandered, and therefore, so should Indiana Republicans. —

Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025 Republicans gerrymandered Athens-Clarke to include one strongly Democratic district, parceling out the rest of the county into three seats intended to be Republican. —

CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025 Southern states Louisiana’s district lines are under scrutiny from challengers questioning whether the state has racially gerrymandered by creating too many majority-Black districts. —

David Lightman, Sacbee.com, 5 Dec. 2025 That’s because the Republicans had gerrymandered the house in many critical swing states, such as Pennsylvania and Virginia. —

Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

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Prosecutors allege Saab and his associates manipulated the program through overpriced contracts and international financial transactions designed to conceal illicit proceeds.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 18 May 2026
Musk’s core claim was that the co-founders had manipulated him into donating millions of dollars and eventually turned OpenAI into a for-profit.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026