as in incapacity
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Recent Examples of disqualification
The filing asked the court to uphold an appeals court ruling last month that disqualified Willis over her relationship with a prosecutor on the case.
Willis asked the Georgia Supreme Court earlier this month to reverse her disqualification.
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Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2025
Carlsen’s fashion protest initially led to a 200 euro fine and disqualification from the tournament.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 31 Dec. 2024
Appraisers who willfully fail to meet these standards may be subject to disqualification.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Even before the disqualification last month, Ms. Willis’s office had already been fending off attempts to derail her case.
—Danny Hakim, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 17 Jan. 2025
Carlsen’s fashion protest initially led to a 200 euro fine and disqualification from the tournament.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 31 Dec. 2024
Appraisers who willfully fail to meet these standards may be subject to disqualification.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 14 Jan. 2025
Even before the disqualification last month, Ms. Willis’s office had already been fending off attempts to derail her case.
—Danny Hakim, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualification
Noun
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The incapacity to proceed statute in North Carolina doesn’t expressly prevent applying it retroactively, Emry argues.—
Kallie Cox,
Charlotte Observer,
17 Jan. 2025
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Then-Secretary of State Robert Lansing invoked Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution, which provides for the vice president to assume presidential duties in cases of incapacity.—
Richard Menger MD MPA,
Forbes,
13 Jan. 2025
Noun
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When pressed on such timelines during a Senate hearing in December 2024, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf reiterated the issue isn’t a matter of corruption or incompetency, but federal support.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
15 Jan. 2025
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It's been a revolving door of incompetency under center for the Browns this year.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
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With evolving attitudes toward drug policy, particularly the legalization and normalization of cannabis, businesses must acknowledge that past drug convictions do not equate to an inability to succeed professionally.—
Summer Westerbur,
Rolling Stone,
27 Jan. 2025
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The inability of Meta's META.O AI chatbot to identify the current president of the United States was elevated to urgent status by the Facebook owner this week, requiring a fast fix, a person familiar with the issue said.—
Katie Paul,
USA TODAY,
25 Jan. 2025
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After a term marked by civil unrest, incompetence, moral and ethical failures, conspiracy theories, extremism, mismanaging COVID, and overseeing Republican losses in the House and the Senate, America was decidedly tired of Trump’s ineptitude and self-destructiveness.—
S.E. Cupp,
New York Daily News,
22 Jan. 2025
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Per Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, an internal affairs investigation resulted in a sustained charge of incompetence against Officer Cardwell.—
Ingrid Vasquez,
People.com,
22 Jan. 2025
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, those totems of Democratic impotence, entered together and acted as if they’d been instructed never to shoot each other so much as a passing glance.—
Vinson Cunningham,
The New Yorker,
20 Jan. 2025
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Social media, though, offers an alternative to this impotence.—
Callum Booth,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
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The persistence of market failure and agency expertise narratives, despite political failures and bureaucratic ineptitude being the true obstacles.—
Clyde Wayne Crews Jr.,
Forbes,
12 Jan. 2025
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Every time Freedom Caucus members gum up the works for Republicans, Jeffries is able to paint it as Republican ineptitude rather than having to answer questions about Democratic obstruction.—
Chris Roemer,
Baltimore Sun,
9 Jan. 2025
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“Disqualification.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualification. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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