as in to invalidate
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Recent Examples of disqualify
Following the eventful Cook Out 400 at Martinsville, Erik Jones was disqualified by NASCAR for failing to meet the minimum weight requirement laid out in the regulations.
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Please note that the entry limit is per person, thus creating multiple accounts or entering on multiple platforms will not increase your number of entries or chance of winning and will disqualify you from participation in this Sweepstakes.
—Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 26 Mar. 2025
The timing of Watkins’ injury not only disqualifies her from this postseason but also complicates her availability for the 2025-26 season.
—Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Writing a proposal can require hundreds of hours of effort, and even a single noncompliant response—out of hundreds—can lead to the entire proposal being disqualified.
—Derek Hoyt, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
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Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2025
Please note that the entry limit is per person, thus creating multiple accounts or entering on multiple platforms will not increase your number of entries or chance of winning and will disqualify you from participation in this Sweepstakes.
—Emily Cegielski, Flow Space, 26 Mar. 2025
The timing of Watkins’ injury not only disqualifies her from this postseason but also complicates her availability for the 2025-26 season.
—Sabreena Merchant, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Writing a proposal can require hundreds of hours of effort, and even a single noncompliant response—out of hundreds—can lead to the entire proposal being disqualified.
—Derek Hoyt, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disqualify
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He was sentenced to death, but that was commuted to life in prison after California’s Supreme Court invalidated all death sentences prior to 1972.—
Emily Krauser,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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Tatiana Pino, who has spent the past two years in the throes of a contentious divorce case with her husband of 30 years, is now contesting the will, claiming that her husband’s attempts to have her killed betrayed an unstable mental condition that should invalidate the document altogether.—
Catherine Odom,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
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Often, leaders provide answers and high-level direction, which can leave team members feeling diminished and nullify their ideas.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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But the president soon changed his tune when South Carolina claimed authority to nullify federal tariffs.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
3 Mar. 2025
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When his boss, the Archbishop of Vienna, forbade the wicked play The Marriage of Figaro to be composed as an opera, Mozart composed the comic opera anyway.—
Chip Bell,
Forbes,
15 Mar. 2025
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The show is set in 15th century Europe at a time of inquisition, a time when heretics are burned at the stake and it is essentially forbidden to look at the stars.—
Rafael Motamayor,
IndieWire,
15 Mar. 2025
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“Disqualify.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disqualify. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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