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Recent Examples of disqualified
Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2026
Patterson initially 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.
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Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
20 Nov. 2025
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.
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Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 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.
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Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
The disqualified angler, whose identity has not been made public, was reportedly in first place and looking at $100,000 in prize money.
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Dac Collins,
Outdoor Life,
26 Mar. 2026
Patterson initially 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.
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Chris Ramirez,
jsonline.com,
20 Nov. 2025
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.
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Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
22 Oct. 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.
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Alison Durkee,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualified
Adjective
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Any small gift or reward from the charity makes the entire contribution ineligible for a QCD.
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Serious inquiries have turned up only vanishingly rare cases of ineligible people voting or of someone voting twice in any election.
Verb
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An Oregon environmental group is suing the Department of the Interior to stop a timber sale in the Coast Range because Congress invalidated the BLM resource management plan that would have ordinarily guided the sale of about 1,300 acres of timber in sensitive salmon-rearing habitat.
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Two years ago, the court upheld a law preventing domestic abusers from owning guns; a lower court had invalidated the law before the high court intervened.
Adjective
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If unable to escape, face the shore and call or wave for help.
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Upon arrival, deputies were unable to locate the boat or a suspect and their search began, according to a news release shared on Friday.
Verb
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The Oregon lawsuit claims that, because BLM’s management plans are nullified, then any actions the agency might take that descends from the plan, including timber sales, are also invalid.
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That attempt successfully nullified a rule that would have required all vehicles sold in California to be zero-emission by 2035.
Adjective
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Their rivals were a candid, impudent pair, the schoolgirlish Shakira and a throaty American bottle-service girl named Toni, both incapable of conniving their way into romance, prone to heartbreak, and swiftly ostracized for their overt judgment of other islanders.
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Following in the footsteps of Eddie the Eagle and Cool Runnings, Next Goal Wins focuses on a real-life sporting underdog that even Hollywood recognizes is incapable of being turned into a champion team.
Adjective
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There are worse strategies, but perhaps the unfit 18-year-old can’t do it all himself.
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The plan to buy large warehouses unfit for human habitation and spend millions more to convert them to prisons sparked nationwide backlash and pointed resistance in Social Circle and Oakwood.
Adjective
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Clinical psychologists concluded after exams in the six years since his arrest that McGuire was incompetent to stand trial.
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She was found incompetent to stand trial and was committed to the Missouri Department of Mental Health, according to a statement provided by Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Jazzlyn Johnson.
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“Disqualified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualified. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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