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Recent Examples of disqualified
Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Patterson was charged with one count of election fraud — voting by disqualified person, which is a Class I felony and punishable by not more than $10,000, or imprisoned up to 3½ years, or both.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The rules will apply to any student loan payments made after July 1, 2026, so borrowers working for disqualified employers will not have any of their payments counted toward loan forgiveness if they’re made after that date.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
She was charged with dangerous driving occasioning death, fail to stop and assist after vehicle impact causing death and driving a motor vehicle with a disqualified license, stated the NSW release.
—Escher Walcott, PEOPLE, 22 Oct. 2025
Patterson was charged with one count of election fraud — voting by disqualified person, which is a Class I felony and punishable by not more than $10,000, or imprisoned up to 3½ years, or both.
—Drake Bentley, jsonline.com, 26 Aug. 2025
The rules will apply to any student loan payments made after July 1, 2026, so borrowers working for disqualified employers will not have any of their payments counted toward loan forgiveness if they’re made after that date.
—Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualified
Adjective
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Last week, Google made sweepstakes ineligible for advertising certification, effectively blackballing them.—
Dan Bernstein,
Sportico.com,
10 Nov. 2025
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The State Department sanctioned the oligarch, a one-time provincial governor in Ukraine, and designated his wife and two children as ineligible for entry into the United States this past March 5.—
Olena Loginova,
Miami Herald,
7 Nov. 2025
Verb
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Trump issued a version of it at the end of his first term but it was invalidated by the Biden administration almost immediately.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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The state Supreme Court invalidated the 1849 law in July.—
Jessie Opoien,
jsonline.com,
24 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Republicans control the Senate and House, but Senate Republicans — with their 53-47 seat majority — have been unable to pass the House bill under the Senate’s rules concerning legislation.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
11 Nov. 2025
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IndyStar was unable to immediately locate the other defendants.—
Jade Jackson,
IndyStar,
10 Nov. 2025
Verb
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But a late whistle for a delay of game nullified the play and backed the Panthers up five yards.—
The Athletic Staff,
New York Times,
28 Oct. 2025
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His facemask penalty nullified Mac Jones’ first-series scramble to midfield.—
Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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The girl seems incapable of forming a malicious thought, much less serving as the incarnation of evil, and that’s what makes the choice so apt for a film in which a simple, seemingly innocent desire — to live as an ordinary man — threatens to draw Jesus from his destiny.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Gilligan is probably incapable of saccharine.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Miyares referenced a Richmond Times-Dispatch report of a Virginia trooper clocking Jones at 116 miles per hour, framing him as unfit to enforce the law.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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The Bush and Quayle team won the 1988 election, but the impression of Quayle as unfit for the job remained a drag on Bush’s reputation.—
Time,
Time,
3 Nov. 2025
Adjective
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The interview was one of Gille's first public appearances since a judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial in August.—
Natalie Davies,
Freep.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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The thing that makes Slow Horses work so well — in addition to the action and pacing and farting — is that everyone on this show is incompetent in their own special little way.—
Brian Grubb,
Vulture,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Disqualified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualified. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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