incompetence
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There’s plenty of furtive gags like this throughout “Up in Smoke”: police incompetence, absent parents, anti-war rhetoric and racial stereotypes that function as satire.
From Salon • Apr. 18, 2026
This is obviously a demonstration of incompetence and it is their fault.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
However, the Department for Education said students had been let down by "incompetence or abuse of the system".
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
The Justice Department’s struggle to appoint U.S. attorneys stemmed from a mix of obstinance and incompetence.
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026
A story was direct and simple, allowing nothing to come between herself and her reader—no intermediaries with their private ambitions or incompetence, no pressures of time, no limits on resources.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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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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