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Recent Examples of incompetency 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 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 See All Example Sentences for incompetency
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Noun
  • Boos rained down much of the evening, with frustration directed at the referees and the Checkers’ inability to convert on their powerplay opportunities.
    Hunter Bailey, Charlotte Observer, 24 June 2025
  • Our inability to record these sweltering spells in a more conspicuous way is shared by the natural world, which rarely shows the marks of an episode of hot weather in any lasting way.
    Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • The resulting media circus of their incompetence distracts us from their behind-the-scenes actions that are fueling a growing health crisis impacting the very working-class communities that helped deliver Trump his second term.
    MSNBC Newsweek, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025
  • Unlike paternalism — which presumes incompetence and justifies overriding someone’s autonomy — maternalism operates relationally, that is to say, it is rooted in relational awareness.
    Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025

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“Incompetency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incompetency. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.

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