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Recent Examples of incompetency Any disagreements, incompetencies, and misunderstandings will cause visible damage to your home and your mental health during the process. Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2024 The entire public, with an average IQ of 100, was able to make an assessment of incompetency within the first three minutes or less of the debate. Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 4 July 2024 The judge also appointed two doctors to evaluate Ramos’ mental fitness, as part of the issue around mental incompetency, and anticipated learning the results by late August. Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 29 June 2024 Under state law, only a judge can declare a person ineligible to vote due to incompetency. Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for incompetency
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompetency
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • These two Radical Left fools left behind two cities that will take years to recover from their incompetence and evil.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The great tariff turnaround this week was either a sign of gross incompetence or a cruel game played on the world.
    Paul Bedard, The Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2025

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“Incompetency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompetency. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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