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Recent Examples of reapportionment
Florida and Texas have been gaining seats for a few decades, while New York has been losing seats over each reapportionment cycle.
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Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
Last year, the Brennan Center for Justice predicted that the state was on track to lose four more congressional districts in reapportionment in 2030, leaving California with just 48 House seats.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Michael Li, senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, said Friday the Census Bureau’s new estimates indicated there might be a slightly less dramatic 2030 reapportionment across the nation.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Utah Congressional District 4 Utah’s 4th congressional district first appeared after the 2010 Census reapportionment.
—Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Jared Gans, The Hill, 12 Jan. 2025
Last year, the Brennan Center for Justice predicted that the state was on track to lose four more congressional districts in reapportionment in 2030, leaving California with just 48 House seats.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Michael Li, senior counsel in the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program, said Friday the Census Bureau’s new estimates indicated there might be a slightly less dramatic 2030 reapportionment across the nation.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2024
Utah Congressional District 4 Utah’s 4th congressional district first appeared after the 2010 Census reapportionment.
—Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reapportionment
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This covert backroom apportionment, fuelled by unrestrained corruption and carried out in the name of ethnosectarian balancing, has delegitimized the post-2003 governance of Iraq and alienated the vast majority of the population from the ruling elite.—
Toby Dodge,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Oct. 2018
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In response, a bipartisan coalition emerged to fight back against these anti-alien apportionment bills.—
Made by History,
Time,
2 Apr. 2025
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However, the significant disparity in prize money between the competitions arises from the distribution of funds based on league placing at the end of the initial phase.—
Leon Imber,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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Velvet Peanut Butter brand, with its decades-long Detroit history, will be produced in Detroit in 2026 with plans for nationwide distribution.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
11 July 2025
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Saudi Arabia’s domestic bond market is growing, slowly, as both lenders and borrowers prioritize direct loans from banks over public issuances.—
Manal Albarakati,
semafor.com,
7 July 2025
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The United States breached the hundred-percent threshold once before in 1946 when wartime issuance pushed public debt to 119 percent of GDP.—
Dave Birnbaum,
Forbes.com,
4 July 2025
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“Reapportionment.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reapportionment. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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