disqualification

noun

Definition of disqualificationnext
as in incapacity

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Recent Examples of disqualification Any attempt by a participant, or any other person, to participate using more than one rescue dog/pet, using any method, may result in disqualification by Sponsor, in its sole discretion. — Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026 Supervisors asked candidates about a recent California Supreme Court ruling that criticized Yolo County prosecutors’ use of a judicial disqualification rule to have cases reassigned from the county’s sole Latina judge, leading to allegations of discrimination. — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 June 2026 Zayn hit Gunther with the title belt and forced a disqualification. — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 June 2026 Day Pitney opposed disqualification. — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for disqualification
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualification
  1. incapacity
  2. incompetency
  3. inability
  4. incompetence
  5. impotence
  6. ineptitude
  7. incapability
  8. powerlessness
Noun
  • My embodiment—paralysis—is conjured when trying to describe an inability, a lack, an incapacity.
    — Rebekah Taussig, Time, 7 July 2026
  • Under Missouri law, most mail ballots must be notarized before they can be counted, though voters casting absentee ballots for certain reasons, including incapacity, are exempt from that requirement.
    — Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
Definition of incapacity
Noun
  • Those forms are not pertinent to the finding of incompetency and are therefore subject to the open records law, Ziegler and Bradley wrote.
    — Scott Bauer, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2026
  • 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.
    — Matthew Ablon, CBS News, 12 May 2026
Definition of incompetency
Noun
  • His complaints include Microsoft being the de facto root of trust for the entire UEFI platform, the inability of the protection to scale sufficiently, and the ability for components to boot even after top-level certificates expire.
    — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 14 July 2026
  • While there are some drawbacks compared to traditional investments — such as its inability to earn dividends — there are several ways to add gold to your portfolio.
    — Liz Knueven, CNBC, 14 July 2026
Definition of inability
Noun
  • Was the chaos in El Paso a matter of incompetence, impossible-to-meet deadlines, or something else entirely?
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • Both teams are eliminated from the tournament for incompetence.
    — Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 30 June 2026
Definition of incompetence
Noun
  • The Iran and Gaza wars have thrown that absence and European strategic impotence into sharp relief.
    — Galip Dalay, Time, 7 July 2026
  • So imagine his feelings of impotence and rage when the boy is killed anyway, by an impossible arrow that finds its target through a tiny crack in a door and then, apparently, vanishes.
    — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 May 2026
Definition of impotence
Noun
  • He was revisited by a vague feeling of physical ineptitude that’d haunted him since childhood; failing to throw the ball properly on sports day at primary school, his father watching.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
  • Adding to the increasingly humiliating position in which the administration has put itself, the mayor got called out by Stonepeak for ineptitude.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2026
Definition of ineptitude
Noun
  • This could reflect in features such as automation incapabilities, ​incompetent workflow designs, overreliance on legacy infrastructure and lack of alignment in financial transformation.
    — Dr. Saheer Nelliparamban, Forbes.com, 7 July 2026
  • 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
Definition of incapability
Noun
  • This sense of powerlessness, too, is a genuine aspect of a poet’s reality.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • As far as going through life’s grand stages is concerned, this has been a double-whammy of pain and powerlessness.
    — Eric Koreen, New York Times, 21 June 2026
Definition of powerlessness

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