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Recent Examples of incompetency If Black and Middlebrooks plan to make that challenge, their lawyers must file petitions alleging incompetency between May 27-29 for Black and between July 7-9 for Middlebrooks. Evan Mealins, Nashville Tennessean, 3 Mar. 2025 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 It's been a revolving door of incompetency under center for the Browns this year. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025 Brown signed an incompetency finding last Wednesday. Skye Seipp, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for incompetency
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompetency
Noun
  • Conventional approaches, such as visual serving and force control, often struggle to achieve reliable performance due to their inability to simultaneously address positional and force-related uncertainties.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The victim told police that Ising had constantly harassed him at work for two years, sitting next to him during meals and joking about his inability to eat many foods because of his medical condition.
    Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The agents at Slough House are renowned for the incompetence that landed them there, but there have been, of course, plenty of times when their instincts are sound, their actions are noble, and they’re wildly underestimated, just like their flatulent boss.
    Scott Tobias, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2025
  • That was straight Nathaniel Hackett level incompetence.
    Joe Nguyen, Denver Post, 12 Oct. 2025

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“Incompetency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompetency. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.

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