How to Use qualified in a Sentence
qualified
adjective- She gave a qualified yes to the question.
- She is highly qualified for the job.
- I'm not qualified to give you advice about what you should do.
- The plan was given qualified approval.
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Steph then called her dad, who is a qualified builder, to give her a hand.
— Keryn Donnelly, refinery29.com, 19 Sep. 2023 -
Google gave the job to a man who was less qualified, her complaint claims.
— WIRED, 2 Oct. 2023 -
Some of them are networks and old ideas of who should serve and who is qualified.
— Abc News, ABC News, 18 Nov. 2022 -
Nine other men hit the mark and qualified for the final.
— Lindsay Kimble, Peoplemag, 8 Aug. 2024 -
Saints qualified for the Open Division for the fourth time.
— Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2024 -
Offers will be sent to qualified students from states where the schools are based.
— Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023 -
Even if some of those jobs return to the U.S., many workers aren’t qualified.
— Andy Kessler, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2022 -
Of course, finding a new-to-you qualified doc isn’t the easiest task.
— Jess Sims, SELF, 23 Oct. 2023 -
Even among the clubs that are qualified for the playoffs in the east, each one is still jockeying for seeding.
— The Enquirer, 6 Oct. 2022 -
Critics on both sides of the aisle have also accused him of not being qualified to lead the FBI.
— Rachel Barber, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2024 -
There's none of them that are not well qualified to be the Golden Bachelorette.
— Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 3 Nov. 2023 -
If that happens, ByteDance would have 180 days to sell TikTok to a qualified buyer.
— Haleluya Hadero, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024 -
Lastly, the law limits how many of each type of hearing a qualified project would be subject to.
— Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 24 Dec. 2024 -
The producers are more than qualified to speak on this subject — both have more than their share of both hits and classics.
— Paul Thompson, Rolling Stone, 18 Oct. 2024 -
The majority responded with top marks and a few qualified for the state meet in more than one event.
— Lou Ponsi, Orange County Register, 18 May 2024 -
That is not qualified to be able to participate in this.
— Lexi Lonas Cochran, The Hill, 11 Dec. 2024 -
Then, there needs to be centers where it's provided and there needs to be people who are qualified to lead these trips.
— Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023 -
That equates to an average of 7.1 yards per carry, the third best among qualified running backs last season and the best among any in the Power Five.
— Tony Garcia, Detroit Free Press, 3 Sep. 2023 -
While a great many are highly qualified, a great many aren’t, yet the powers that be are lowering standards to let them in.
— Stanley Goldfarb, National Review, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Schwarzman asked Grey to give her a list of qualified candidates.
— Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023 -
But most immigrants are not, in fact, qualified to vote.
— BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023 -
The school has had a tough time finding qualified teachers willing to travel to the remote village.
— IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2023 -
By the end of Tuesday’s proceedings, the pool of qualified jurors was whittled down to 50 people.
— Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023 -
Instead of promoting Cross, the Dollarway School Board hired a less-qualified white man as the school's head coach.
— Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2022 -
Wakeland is qualified among the top eight in all three relays, highlighted by the second-best time in the 200 medley.
— Dallas News, 16 Feb. 2023 -
His six interceptions are tied for the fewest among qualified starters and he’s thrown more tan one only once, in Week 5 against Michigan State.
— Andrés Soto, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2024
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