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 It’s been stacked, and packed, and gerrymandered by Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans. — NBC news, 6 Sep. 2026 Shelton is running in a district that has been gerrymandered since the last election. — Jack Harvel july 28, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026 It was gerrymandered unbelievably so. — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026 Bowing to Trump, feckless state legislators have unconstitutionally gerrymandered Democratic-leaning congressional districts out of existence. — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 May 2026 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 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for gerrymandered
  1. manipulated
  2. arranged
  3. negotiated
  4. engineered
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  • The Delhi agitation centers on allegations that voter lists were manipulated during the Special Intensive Revision exercise.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The researchers then manipulated the scenario by changing what happened after the focal bee returned to the hive and gave directions to the feeder.
    — Marta Hill, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of manipulated
Verb
  • Detours and shortcuts in the brain The cells and synapses of the brain aren’t arranged in rigid, linear paths for each task and experience.
    — Sean Mccabe, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Desperate for actual contact with Holmes, Fielder has arranged to meet her briefly at the prison before Evans shows up.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of arranged
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  • The deal was negotiated by Bressack and Matthew Helderman, CEO and co-founder of BondIt and Buffalo 8.
    — Mya Copeland, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026
  • The women negotiated a lease and arranged to meet him at his home.
    — Emerson Clarridge, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of negotiated
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  • The low-dropout regulator which converts battery voltage into a steady supply is specifically engineered to avoid adding noise.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 19 Oct. 2026
  • Against one of the nation’s most talented defenses, Florida’s first-time starting quarterback calmly engineered the kind of drive that wins championships and changes seasons.
    — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of engineered

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“Gerrymandered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gerrymandered. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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