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disqualified

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verb

past tense of disqualify

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Recent Examples of disqualified
Adjective
The disqualified angler, whose identity has not been made public, was reportedly in first place and looking at $100,000 in prize money. 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. 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. 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. Alison Durkee, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualified
Adjective
  • Sorsby, who was to make at least $4 million this year at Texas Tech, could potentially be ruled ineligible for his final college season depending on the results on an NCAA investigation.
    Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 May 2026
  • With Grapevine’s removal from the UIL Texas high school baseball playoffs over the use of an ineligible player, some Fort Worth-area teams had less than 24 hours to prepare for new bi-district round opponents.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • Once complete, those inquiries are expected to result in tariffs that are as high, or close to, the emergency duties that the Supreme Court recently invalidated.
    Lazaro Gamio, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • In 1996, a federal trial court in Mississippi invalidated Bible study classes taught in a rotation with music, physical education and library courses, plus another called A Biblical History of the Middle East.
    Charles J. Russo, The Conversation, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • Dillon Gabriel moved to a backup role as Deshaun Watson remained on the physically unable to perform list, even after the team opened his 21-day practice window in December.
    Chantz Martin, FOXNews.com, 2 May 2026
  • According to the Stash report, 76% of millennials are living paycheck to paycheck, and 29% of millennial women have debt and are unable to save.
    Boston Herald editorial staff, Boston Herald, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • The goal was nullified because Hyman kicked the puck in, opening the door for the Ducks to pad their lead.
    Andrew Knoll, Oc Register, 1 May 2026
  • The appeals court had determined that the refusal of prosecutors to provide all the evidence to the defense in the first round of the trial had nullified the original indictment.
    ABC News, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • In a rollicking monologue, Fry described all opera as comedy, tragedy merely being the result of idiotic egos incapable of levity.
    Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2026
  • That means these kittens, in their very first hours and days of life, were physically incapable of generating their own heat.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • In October, the judge found that Conner was mentally unfit to testify in person at trial and allowed the recorded testimony, even though defense attorneys will not be able to cross-examine him in front of the jury.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 4 May 2026
  • More than two years later, the trial concluded with 25 of 28 defendants being found guilty (of those not found guilty, two had died during the trial and another was declared mentally unfit for trial).
    USA Today, USA Today, 3 May 2026
Adjective
  • And these people in charge aren't just economically incompetent.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 May 2026
  • From an ideological standpoint, the new flag was introduced at the exact time the citizens of this state were just getting a grip on the outrageously incompetent management of the state’s money, dereliction that allowed billions of their tax dollars to be lost to fraud.
    Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 2 May 2026

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“Disqualified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualified. Accessed 5 May. 2026.

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