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[dis-trikt] / ˈdɪs trɪkt /


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Over the years, Narwat has petitioned chief minister, MPs and district officials, and written to the National Human Rights Commission, seeking improvements to the two Khedi Kalan schools.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

The attack still lingers in metro Detroit’s close-knit Jewish community, which is centered on Moss’ congressional district.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

The details were blacked out as the district attorney continues an investigation into the devastating fire.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

Neither Tennessee resident cops to having much interest in Nashville’s glitzy Lower Broadway district, where tourists stumble from one bar owned by a name-brand country star to another.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 19, 2026

The banking district consisted of several wide streets with large marble buildings on each side of them, all banks.

From "The Bad Beginning" by Lemony Snicket

Defense spending bills present excellent opportunities for members of Congress to direct jobs to their districts.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

It’s not necessarily easy for entire school districts to shift to a new standard, given that teachers have been instructing using these calculators for years.

From MarketWatch Aug. 18, 2026

Jamestown is one of the oldest districts in the city, a community originally built around a British coastal fort where slaves were brought, traded and then sent on ships to the Americas.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

Enrollment continues to shrink at a faster pace than in most California school districts — even though academic performance has been improving.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

The Levitt-built houses sprawl over three Pennsylvania townships—Bristol, Middletown, and Falls, as well as a tiny jurisdiction called Tullytown Borough—and the children who live in them go to one of three different public school districts.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove

“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

The town was districted and each of us took his portion.

From The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas by Margaret Hill McCarter

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

In 1842, he went to the State Senate, opposed the Central Bank, and took an active part in the questions of internal improvements and districting the State, which then divided parties.

From Presidential Candidates: containing Sketches, Biographical, Personal and Political, of Prominent Candidates for the Presidency in 1860 by D. W. Bartlett




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