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district

[dis-trikt] / ˈdɪs trɪkt /


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The district court also found that the rule exceeded USPS’s authority to issue.

From Slate Sep. 15, 2026

Using legalese, it said tersely that the administration was “unlikely to succeed on the merits of its challenge” to a district judge’s injunction that blocked the rules.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 14, 2026

Trump carried the district as drawn now by less than 2 percentage points in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

The Liberal Democrat councillor urged anyone facing financial hardship to seek help through Devon's Crisis and Resilience Fund, available through local district councils.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

Ethan goes to my middle school; Brenna goes somewhere else in our district.

From "The Sea in Winter" by Christine Day

The nation’s two largest school districts made the move at a pivotal moment in the technology’s evolution.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 14, 2026

Already, some school districts are on high alert.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2026

Posters of a beaming Modi line streets across New Delhi to welcome leaders, with heavy deployments of security forces across the capital and widespread traffic restrictions in central districts.

From Barron's Sep. 10, 2026

Texas enacted a law last year requiring school districts to stock at least one such device on each campus with at least one employee trained to use it.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 9, 2026

To defuse him, as I tried to defuse the districts.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

“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

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

Is choosing a more diverse school worth requesting the transfer, or should we stick with our districted school?

From Slate Jan. 19, 2020

They districted the city, appointed a large investigating committee, and gave tickets calling for the articles most needed in the families found in a suffering condition.

From A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences by Laura S. Haviland

In Allen, the post-Callais case concerning Alabama’s effort to undo Black representation, and in an early Texas districting case, Abbott v.

From Slate Jul. 8, 2026

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

“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

This done, each State passes a law, districting the State according to the number of members assigned it, and each district elects its own representative for Congress.

From Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada by Henry A. Murray




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