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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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While always a much better option than the Republicans, the Democrats are a broken party incapable of offering the type of resistance this era calls for.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Nov. 2025
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Either way, he’s proven incapable of leading the fight to prevent health care premiums from skyrocketing for millions of Americans.—
Sarah D. Wire,
USA Today,
10 Nov. 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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Under California law, people who are found incompetent to stand trial must be sent to a state hospital or secure mental health care facility.—
Nathaniel Percy,
Oc Register,
7 Nov. 2025
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He was found to be incompetent to face the charge in August 2023, and later civilly committed for a mental illness.—
Nick Ferraro,
Twin Cities,
7 Nov. 2025
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“Disqualified.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualified. Accessed 21 Nov. 2025.
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