Sample Sentences forgerrymander (editor-reviewed)
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The gerrymandering assured most incumbents will be re-elected.gerrymandering = manipulating voting district boundaries for political advantage
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The Supreme Court found that the Constitution does not prohibit a state from gerrymandering as long as it is not designed to hurt an ethnic minority.
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Reformers argued that independent commissions should draw district lines to prevent lawmakers from gerrymandering for their own benefit.
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Home was Maycomb County, a gerrymander some seventy miles long and spreading thirty miles at its widest point, a wilderness dotted with tiny settlements the largest of which was Maycomb, the county seat.† (source)
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Douglas returned to the Senate only because the Democrats, who had skillfully gerrymandered the election districts, still held their majority in the state legislature.† (source)
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the new coinages: /gerrymander/, /heeler/, /buncombe/, /roorback/, /mugwump/ and /to bulldoze/;† (source)
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He knows nothing of /lame ducks/, /pork barrels/, /gag-rule/, /junkets/, /gerrymanders/, /omnibus bills/, /snakes/, /niggers in the woodpile/, /Salt river/, /crow/, /bosses/, /ward heelers/, /men higher up/, /silk-stockings/, /repeaters/, /ballot-box stuffers/ and /straight/ and /split tickets/ (he always calls them /ballots/ or /voting papers/).†
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