How to Use nontechnical in a Sentence

nontechnical

adjective
  • Unions have made inroads in tech, though largely for nontechnical roles.
    Greg Bensinger, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
  • That’s not to say nontechnical founders shouldn’t make the effort to learn as much as possible.
    Jake Hare, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • Unions have made some inroads, largely for nontechnical roles.
    Greg Bensinger, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • In nontechnical terms, when one asset zigs, the other one zags.
    Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • Many graduates in nontechnical fields close the gap within a decade.
    Rasheem Rooke, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2026
  • What once required development teams and large budgets can now be built by nontechnical founders in weeks.
    John Tyler, Forbes.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • There’s also a need to make all that information digestible for people in nontechnical roles.
    Steve Gickling, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • But remember that, in most cases, nontechnical people don’t share your passion for the details.
    IEEE Spectrum, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Even the most nontechnical employee can make use of this tool to become more productive and effective.
    Abhay Gupta, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
  • All the technical or nontechnical skills required for the job will evolve naturally.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • At that point, the nontechnical worker becomes part of the software production cycle.
    Ismail Amla, Forbes.com, 20 Jan. 2026
  • Orman’s path from music to machine learning shows how those with nontechnical backgrounds can succeed in software.
    Edd Gent, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
  • Edtech leaders can explore infusing no-code and low-code tools on the market into their programs to reach nontechnical learners.
    Jeff Bordes, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Some research found that technical skills were more consistently stereotyped by both men and women than were nontechnical skills.
    Matthew J. Liberatore, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2020
  • But there are good nontechnical responses to all of Alito’s concerns.
    Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Slate Magazine, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Some of the engineers at Ledger didn’t understand why those nontechnical hires were necessary.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
  • But scientists say seaweed removal is a low-cost, nontechnical method that can significantly improve reef health.
    Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Oct. 2023
  • One platform enables nontechnical creators to build virtual influencers and chatbots via a no-code studio.
    Tomer Warschauer Nuni, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Mountaineers flock to Mount Adams’s South Climb, a nontechnical 12-mile round-trip assault.
    Benjamin Tepler, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2020
  • There will most likely be crimeware as a service that will be made available to cybercriminals and nontechnical people to take advantage of.
    Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
  • The friends entered the army after high school, as is required for the majority of Israeli citizens, but served in nontechnical roles.
    Washington Post, 18 July 2021
  • The grid, through a combination of technical and nontechnical issues, loses almost half the load in delivery.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • And, as daunting as the looming data crush appears from a technical perspective, some of the greatest challenges are wholly nontechnical.
    Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
  • There’s also coursework that ranges from introductory classes for nontechnical roles to more complex learning for those in data science roles.
    John Kell, Fortune, 2 May 2024
  • The nontechnical term is Parade of Planets, but the technical term is planetary alignment.
    Zoe Mintz, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
  • Other positions included a number of software jobs, as well as nontechnical positions.
    Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • While the continent will need people with technical skills, people in nontechnical fields need AI education as well.
    Jeff Bordes, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
  • SMBs can use no-code tools to create, organize and automate business workflows handled by employees in nontechnical roles.
    Borya Shakhnovich, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • For nontechnical readers, xenoglossy is the sudden ability to speak a language completely unknown to the individual.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
  • And despite good performance reviews, Chiampa said, she was steered toward nontechnical project management tasks instead of the development work she’d been hired for.
    Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019

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