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Recent Examples of incompetency Brown signed an incompetency finding last Wednesday. Skye Seipp, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Nov. 2024 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 See All Example Sentences for incompetency
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incompetency
Noun
  • Fever head coach Stephanie White was upset with how the referees officiated the game and about the inability to take control.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 June 2025
  • Predicate orders are based on the abandonment, abuse or neglect of that child by one or both parents, and the inability to reunify with one or both parents, based on those findings.
    Taylor Romine, CNN Money, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • But Oakland residents who have dealt with decades of incompetence at City Hall shouldn’t have their hopes up.
    U T Editorial Board, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Meanwhile, the pissy, frustrated lawman (Kenneth Tobey) trying to coordinate the manhunt has to deal with abject incompetence and mind-boggling bureaucracy, as well as his own desire to relive his youth.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 June 2025

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

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