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Recent Examples of disqualification
Day Pitney opposed disqualification.
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Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
3 June 2026
After the independent board, a three-member group administered by the state Board of Education, vacated the disqualification, the NCHSAA board of directors called an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to review the matter and named Mallard Creek as co-champions.
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Christopher Kamrani,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
In April, shortly after Italy’s disqualification, Italy’s football-federation president and national-team coach resigned.
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Albert Samaha,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
Federal courts have responded with escalating sanctions—from fines to disqualification to bar referrals.
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Gloria Domingos,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for disqualification
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
3 June 2026
After the independent board, a three-member group administered by the state Board of Education, vacated the disqualification, the NCHSAA board of directors called an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to review the matter and named Mallard Creek as co-champions.
—
Christopher Kamrani,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
In April, shortly after Italy’s disqualification, Italy’s football-federation president and national-team coach resigned.
—
Albert Samaha,
New Yorker,
30 May 2026
Federal courts have responded with escalating sanctions—from fines to disqualification to bar referrals.
—
Gloria Domingos,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for disqualification
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualification
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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.
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Immortality would also be lost on Stoyte, who rivals the carp in his mindless incapacity to notice anything interesting.
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Federal agents have descended upon the home of Cindy Rodriguez Singh, the North Texas mom who was recently sent to a state hospital after an incompetency ruling in the murder of her young son.
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The longer the delay, the more the system risks turning temporary incompetency into long-term confinement.
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This move follows a successful loan spell at Monaco and his inability to impress new coach Hansi Flick.
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The ripple effect of food insecurity around the world from Ukraine’s inability to ship its normally massive grain crops.
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In it, the author described a culture of confusion, stress, and incompetence, as contractors competed for work to be completed under near-impossible deadlines.
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The most serious charges — which included incompetence, negligence and failure of duty — were dismissed.
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Decadence is sensuality and impotence, opulence and decay.
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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.
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Adding to the increasingly humiliating position in which the administration has put itself, the mayor got called out by Stonepeak for ineptitude.
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Torn between the seriousness of violence, and the comedy of failure and ineptitude, most directors find a way out of this conundrum by resorting to extremely dark humor.
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Trump’s command of Congress owes to the incapability of many politicians to see beyond the next election.
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This sense of powerlessness, too, is a genuine aspect of a poet’s reality.
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As far as going through life’s grand stages is concerned, this has been a double-whammy of pain and powerlessness.
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“Disqualification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualification. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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