as in disqualified
not allowed to do or be something Previously ineligible patients may now be able to participate in the study. She was ineligible for the contest.
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Recent Examples of ineligible So Luka might be the scoring champ but ineligible for awards. —
Zach Harper, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026 Masterson was ruled ineligible for college hockey after playing in two exhibition games for the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires. —ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026 The feds would refuse to send ballots to people deemed ineligible to cast them. —Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026 Just months earlier, in a September 2024 audit report, the Justice Department’s inspector general found that the service had deputized people who were ineligible and had deputized others for questionable purposes. —David Ingram, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ineligible
Zach Harper, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2026 Masterson was ruled ineligible for college hockey after playing in two exhibition games for the OHL’s Windsor Spitfires. —ABC News, 7 Apr. 2026 The feds would refuse to send ballots to people deemed ineligible to cast them. —Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2026 Just months earlier, in a September 2024 audit report, the Justice Department’s inspector general found that the service had deputized people who were ineligible and had deputized others for questionable purposes. —David Ingram, NBC news, 6 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for ineligible
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The disqualified angler, whose identity has not been made public, was reportedly in first place and looking at $100,000 in prize money.— Dac Collins, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2026
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Patterson initially was charged with one count of election fraud — voting by disqualified person, which is a Class I felony and punishable by not more than $10,000, or imprisoned up to 3½ years, or both.— Chris Ramirez, jsonline.com, 20 Nov. 2025
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The space agency’s Apollo-era moon suits are unfit for use.— Claire Cameron, Scientific American, 20 Apr. 2026
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In August, Brady was found unfit to stand trial and ordered to treatment.— Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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Mix Materials The beauty in the unfitted kitchen aesthetic is found in its collected look.— Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 May 2025
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The venerable American clan at the center of the narrator’s reminiscences are wholly unfitted to the modern world and no longer endowed with the fortune that one of them brought home long ago on clipper ships.— Daniel Akst, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
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“Ineligible.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.grautoblog.com/thesaurus/ineligible. Accessed 24 Apr. 2026.
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