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district

[dis-trikt] / ˈdɪs trɪkt /


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Like Tuskegee, it will become part of the newly redrawn second district.

From BBC Jul. 18, 2026

If the district were to become insolvent, then an appointed administrator would take all power away from Supt.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

There is no better illustration of Shanghai’s paradoxical place in modern Chinese history than a museum in the city’s Xintiandi district.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

The warnings have sent shockwaves through the district and angered employee unions.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 17, 2026

One second we’re in the council room, and the next we’re soaring through the governing district.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas

Step outside the museum, however, and everything is Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Lululemon; the museum sits in the middle of one of Shanghai’s most expensive shopping districts.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 17, 2026

In several districts across the country, organizations reported they were relying less on the federal government amid changes to rules and funding levels.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

Since then, the state agency has been collecting and publishing the compensation data of more than 2 million workers across more than 5,000 public agencies — including special districts, universities and state departments.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Grottland clarified the NTS was not an academy nor a centralised school, such as the famed Clairefontaine in France, but "a national development structure connecting grassroots clubs, districts, top clubs and the federation".

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

The cities back East had been built in the railway era, with central business districts linked to outlying suburbs by commuter train and trolley.

From "Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal" by Eric Schlosser

“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

After having finished this, he caused the Territory to be districted, and ordered the election of a delegate to Congress.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William

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

Nor does our conclusion condemn complaints about districting to echo into a void.

From Slate Jun. 30, 2022

Of course it was difficult to determine routes of travel there, and to a large extent that had to be left to the supervisors, but they merely revised our original districting.

From The Boy With the U.S. Census by Rolt-Wheeler, Francis




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