incompletion
AmericanEtymology
Origin of incompletion
First recorded in 1795–1805; in- 3 + completion
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Already within field-goal range in the final minute, they threw the ball on both first and second downs, resulting in an incompletion and a receiver running out of bounds—stopping the clock for Jacksonville each time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
In the Baltimore case, the TD was overruled as an incompletion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Pressure from linebacker Easton Mascarenas-Arnold forced an incompletion on second down.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2024
Sierra Canyon drove to the 13-yard line with 2:20 left, but on fourth down, the potential game-tying drive ended when Orange Lutheran’s Izley Manutai deflected the pass for an incompletion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2024
She was beginning to understand that that "solitude of the soul," which one of her acquaintances, a sculptor, had put into passionate marble, was caused from that sense of incompletion.
From The Precipice by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
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