incompletion
AmericanEtymology
Origin of incompletion
First recorded in 1795–1805; in- 3 + completion
Example Sentences
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In the Baltimore case, the TD was overruled as an incompletion.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
Another ended on an errant fourth-down incompletion from Garbers.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2024
The next four plays: incompletion, incompletion, incompletion, incompletion.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2024
A touchdown likely would have ensued had Penix hit a wide open Rome Odunze, but he threw it well behind his target en route to an incompletion.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2024
In a sterner kind, that of the statues in the sacristy of St. Lorenzo equals it, and there again by incompletion.
From The Seven Lamps of Architecture by Ruskin, John
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