incompetence
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A long bull market breeds complacency, helping to provide cover for incompetence or fraud.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
Mahmood Ul Islam, a 72-year-old lawyer in Kohat, south of Peshawar, told AFP he welcomed the emergency order, accusing the provincial government of "incompetence".
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 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
“This is not just incompetence, it is designed malfunction,” he said in a conference call with reporters about the whistleblower complaint.
From Salon ● Sep. 2, 2026
“They could charge me with all that, could they? They gave me a medal for Ferrara. How could they charge me with incompetence now?”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933), List 1
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