as in to invalidate
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Recent Examples of disqualify
There's a line dividing those who believe his personality and character should be disqualifying—and those who believe that only a person with such disregard for how he is perceived could have made so many necessary changes to the country.
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
In normal times, such an embrace of lawlessness would be disqualifying for the GOP that prides itself on law-and-order hardlines, but this is not the Republican Party of ol’.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
The complex tax legislation disqualified all new EVs assembled outside of North America and implemented strict new requirements for the sourcing of battery materials.
—Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2024
The voters appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court, and the justices reversed Judge Wallace by a 4-3 vote, and ruled that Trump must be disqualified from the primary election ballot in Colorado.
—Mike Davis, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
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Nina Turner, Newsweek, 29 Oct. 2024
In normal times, such an embrace of lawlessness would be disqualifying for the GOP that prides itself on law-and-order hardlines, but this is not the Republican Party of ol’.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 29 Oct. 2024
The complex tax legislation disqualified all new EVs assembled outside of North America and implemented strict new requirements for the sourcing of battery materials.
—Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 27 Oct. 2024
The voters appealed to the Colorado Supreme Court, and the justices reversed Judge Wallace by a 4-3 vote, and ruled that Trump must be disqualified from the primary election ballot in Colorado.
—Mike Davis, The Denver Post, 24 Oct. 2024
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Why the Map Is Contested The map had previously been invalidated by a lower court, however the justices allowed it to be used in 2024 following an emergency appeal from civil rights groups and the state.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Because two judges in October invalidated the new rules passed by the State Election Board, the mechanics of the election this week will be the same as before Adams’ pushes to empower poll watchers and county election board members.Doug Bock Clark, ProPublica, 4 Nov. 2024
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Proposition 133 would nullify the creation of open primaries and enshrine the current partisan primary system in the state Constitution.Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024
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But if the rank is calculated weekly and weighs how your opponents do in their games, smurfs could theoretically be identified before the ranks update, and any changes a match with a smurf would have had can be nullified or reduced.Mike Stubbs, Forbes, 15 Oct. 2024
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The state’s Commission on Judicial Performance, an oversight body that can discipline judges, says they’re forbidden from saying whether or not the matter is under investigation.Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Youth were discouraged or forbidden from speaking their Native languages and forced to speak English.Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Disqualify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualify. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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