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Recent Examples of disqualification
Day Pitney has not yet responded to the potential disqualification in court, which has been set down tentatively for a hearing on March 16.
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Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
Failure to respond within the required timeframe may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner, in Sponsor’s sole discretion.
—AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
In fact, direct engagement with political causes or campaigns is grounds for disqualification.
—Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
But the recent disqualification of several witnesses — including the former police chief and deputy city manager — could threaten to derail an agreement.
—Tess Riski
march 3, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
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Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2026
Failure to respond within the required timeframe may result in disqualification and selection of an alternate winner, in Sponsor’s sole discretion.
—AJC.com, 6 Mar. 2026
In fact, direct engagement with political causes or campaigns is grounds for disqualification.
—Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 6 Mar. 2026
But the recent disqualification of several witnesses — including the former police chief and deputy city manager — could threaten to derail an agreement.
—Tess Riski
march 3, Miami Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualification
Noun
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An attorney who worked on the case was struck by the number of judicial decisions that were made without any finding of incapacity.—
JC Hallman,
Oklahoma Watch,
22 Mar. 2026
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This definition also includes instance in which the victim is incapable of giving consent because of temporary or permanent mental or physical incapacity (include due to the influence of drugs or alcohol) or because of age.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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The reproduction of systemic racism occurs not simply through white denial but also through the promotion of cultural incompetency.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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The District Attorney’s Office said a finding of incompetency does not dismiss the case or result in a defendant’s release, and that proceedings will resume if Mock is later deemed competent.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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Experts say multinationals and foreign investors still want a share of India's consumption story — but the country's inability to create more white-collar jobs is undermining that narrative.—
Priyanka Salve,
CNBC,
2 Apr. 2026
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When their inability to compromise led to a government shutdown in 2011, Standard & Poor’s downgraded this country’s debt from AAA to AA for the first time in roughly a century.—
Stu Strumwasser,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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Accused of political incompetence, Bani Sadr was impeached by parliament in 1981 and subsequently fled into exile.—
Roxane Razavi,
The Conversation,
2 Apr. 2026
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Weaponized incompetence, or the practice of being so helpless that the labor simply falls on someone else, has long been a feature of domestic life.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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But these songs are also honest, sometimes despite themselves, about the feelings of impotence associated with watching history play out on a screen.—
Mitch Therieau,
New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2026
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Those include epidural steroid injections for pain management, cervical fusion, diagnosis and treatment of impotence, and skin and tissue substitutes.—
Jillian Taylor,
StateImpact,
16 Jan. 2026
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The city is doing harm to itself and to Balboa Park with this kind of ineptitude.—
U T Readers,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
29 Mar. 2026
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The current policy – put in place to ease congestion – is a glaring example of ineptitude in state government.—
Joe Battenfeld,
Boston Herald,
14 Mar. 2026
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Trump’s command of Congress owes to the incapability of many politicians to see beyond the next election.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
29 Jan. 2026
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The characters in this novel are forced to live in a neoliberal world where their powerlessness is already predetermined, and they’re ignored by society and told to just keep on living.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
23 Mar. 2026
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Perhaps the deepest conflict is not between red and blue, but between power and powerlessness.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Disqualification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualification. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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