incompetence
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An IG report finds familiar incompetence, but no criminality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The salient point is that this project fell victim to as much incompetence as you’d expect, and no criminality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
The goal of these tactics is not to exonerate the person using them from allegations of criminality, corruption or incompetence.
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
"Publishing something like this is the height of incompetence and a lack of basic respect for people," said one young woman whose parents had gone missing, in a video shared online.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Cursing her incompetence, she stole one of Trotter’s magazines and cut from it a picture of a tall, beautiful black woman in an Afro.
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933), List 1
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Vocabulary Heard at the 2016 Republican National Convention
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