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Noun
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In New Jersey, disqualification from serving a public office is limited to crimes involving a person's public office or public employment.—
Olivia Liu,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025 -
Post-race, Sauber driver Nico Hülkenberg was disqualified for his car’s underfloor plank wearing too much over the grand prix distance – a similar infraction to what was behind Hamilton’s disqualification back in China.—
Luke Smith,
New York Times,
13 Apr. 2025
Noun
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In his remarks, Mr. Trump equated diversity with incompetence, and effectively aligned himself with people who use diversity, equity and inclusion, or D.E.I., as a proxy for race, a dog whistle for white grievance, and a catchall for societal ills.—
Jonathan Swan,
New York Times,
29 Apr. 2025
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Read’s defense attorney, Alan Jackson, told the jury the collision did not happen and the investigation into Read was filled with errors, bias and incompetence.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
25 Apr. 2025
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And there’s a blunt, pulp poetry to Manny’s conclusion (if not a particularly sensitive one), driven to despair by an inability to live in the dissonant but very real space between one’s religious moral compass and the realities of one’s life.—
Andy Andersen,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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And yet, progress waits for no one—failing to adapt will lead to inefficiencies and an inability to meet evolving consumer demands, causing such banks to be left behind.—
Roman Eloshvili,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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It's been a revolving door of incompetency under center for the Browns this year.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
2 Jan. 2025
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When pressed on such timelines during a Senate hearing in December 2024, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf reiterated the issue isn’t a matter of corruption or incompetency, but federal support.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
15 Jan. 2025
Noun
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But that has historically been interpreted as misconduct or incapacity, not policy disagreements.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
17 Apr. 2025
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Vargas Llosa, who died in Lima this past weekend at the age of 89, nurtured a lifelong obsession with his native Peru: its corrupt political ecosystem, its inequality, its incapacity to make good on its promise.—
Ilan Stavans,
The Atlantic,
15 Apr. 2025
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The danger is very real, to be sure, but Ray and Manny’s comical ineptitude keeps it from getting too grim.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
13 Mar. 2025
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The Magic’s ineptitude puts them at a severe disadvantage on most nights.—
Josh Robbins,
The Athletic,
25 Feb. 2025
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Jack Harrison squandered one promising position with a pass that dribbled through to Caoimhin Kelleher, a metaphor for their impotence during the evening.—
Patrick Boyland,
New York Times,
3 Apr. 2025
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The response is similar concerning United’s impotence in front of goal.—
Laurie Whitwell,
The Athletic,
16 Feb. 2025
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“Inaptitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inaptitude. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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