incompetence
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This is obviously a demonstration of incompetence and it is their fault.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 14, 2026
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said the situation was "not students' fault", and that many institutions had let them down "through either incompetence or abuse of the system".
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
“Many of these individuals are effectively prisoners of bureaucratic incompetence, inaction, and indecision, held in place not by law, but by a system that has failed to move.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
The Justice Department’s struggle to appoint U.S. attorneys stemmed from a mix of obstinance and incompetence.
From Slate • Mar. 24, 2026
We were not unforward nor imprecise in our criticism of our officers, muttering that cowering timidity was but poor cover for past incompetence.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933), List 1
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