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disqualified

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verb

past tense of disqualify

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualified
Adjective
  • That, it was made clear, did not include the international window running from June 2-10 but gave clubs the ability to make sure their players could not be deemed ineligible due to international call-ups.
    Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 8 May 2025
  • The article reports that the total number of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach condo buildings on the confidential database as of March was 696, which accounted for nearly half the 1,438 buildings that Fannie Mae had deemed ineligible in the entire state.
    Eduardo J. Valdes, Miami Herald, 6 May 2025
Verb
  • But in a surprising decision in 2023, the high court declined an invitation to reshape Section 2 of the landmark voting law and invalidated Alabama's congressional map drawn by Republican lawmakers after the 2020 Census.
    Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2025
  • Silencing the opposition A day earlier, Istanbul University invalidated Imamoglu's diploma, effectively disqualifying him from running in the next presidential race — a university degree is a requisite for running in elections under Turkish law.
    TIME, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • For two weeks prior to exams, the platform repeatedly crashed, leaving tens of thousands of teachers and students unable to access critical instructional tools.
    Scott White, Forbes.com, 18 May 2025
  • With families unable to pay for meals and schools unwilling to deny children food, many schools are left to absorb upwards of $20K in deficits from the rest of their budgets.
    Grace Chung, Hartford Courant, 17 May 2025
Verb
  • As a result, Highland Park’s first state championship in program history has been nullified and Liberty Hill has been awarded the Class 5A Division II soccer state championship.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12 Apr. 2025
  • Brock Schott, the other freshman tight end, caught a touchdown that was nullified by a holding penalty.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 12 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Bears are betting the president is incapable of doing either.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
  • Dakota Johnson, queen of all nepo babies, is incapable of being boring.
    Bethy Squires, Vulture, 18 May 2025
Adjective
  • That said, to be displaced is to be object, material, pushed across borders, overloaded into boats, stuffed into unfit vehicles, herded over mountains by smugglers.
    Tim Brinkhof, JSTOR Daily, 21 May 2025
  • When Eleanor gives birth to a baby named Lily and—in Ruth’s eyes—proves unfit to care for her, Ruth decides to raise the girl alone.
    Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 9 May 2025
Adjective
  • The Trump administration has pulled the plug on a program that provides legal help to immigrants who are determined mentally incompetent, according to a lawsuit filed by immigration legal groups.
    Suzanne Gamboa, NBC news, 6 May 2025
  • City Council, do the right thing for once and put it on the ballot to overturn the requirement of requiring our incompetent city management to do this.
    U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Apr. 2025
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“Disqualified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualified. Accessed 24 May. 2025.

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