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Recent Examples of nontechnical
The nontechnical term is Parade of Planets, but the technical term is planetary alignment.
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Zoe Mintz, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
Create your own opportunities by participating in IEEE technical and nontechnical events and getting involved with the organization’s student service-learning program, EPICS in IEEE.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2025
Yet the nonprofit appears to be concealing this from visitors to its website, where a search function, the only nontechnical tool for seeing what’s in Common Crawl’s archives, returns misleading results for certain domains.
—Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
This could be your skill with data visualization, your ability to lead seamless project launches, or your knack for simplifying very technical information for nontechnical teams.
—Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Zoe Mintz, CBS News, 28 Feb. 2026
Create your own opportunities by participating in IEEE technical and nontechnical events and getting involved with the organization’s student service-learning program, EPICS in IEEE.
—IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2025
Yet the nonprofit appears to be concealing this from visitors to its website, where a search function, the only nontechnical tool for seeing what’s in Common Crawl’s archives, returns misleading results for certain domains.
—Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
This could be your skill with data visualization, your ability to lead seamless project launches, or your knack for simplifying very technical information for nontechnical teams.
—Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontechnical
Adjective
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So, in a general process of professionalization that changed the way that music was experienced, raising standards while widening the gap between expert and amateur, the mandolin fell out of fashion.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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Denise Lieberman, director and general counsel for the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition, an organization that champions accessible elections, said the signs serve no purpose, since they’re tied to eligibility, which would be vetted by election officials before a ballot is cast.—
Jack Harvel
April 10,
Kansas City Star,
10 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Its findings thus far, though, have been oddly untechnical.—
Rory Smith,
New York Times,
16 Dec. 2022
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There is something in him that deeply resonates with us, something completely untechnical, unstylized, and unformalized.—
Michael LaPointe,
The New Yorker,
26 Apr. 2022
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But each of these is a nonspecific marker, Schaub says, and all of them can occur in patients who are seriously ill.—
Jyoti Madhusoodanan,
Scientific American,
17 Mar. 2026
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The previous system, which was dropped in 2011, was criticized for offering perpetual, nonspecific alerts.—
Frank Witsil,
Freep.com,
13 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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Rather than pursuing generalized robotics applications, Mbodi AI is focused on solving specific, high-value challenges.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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January's wave of protests in Iran was sparked by economic discontent and eventually widened to encompass more generalized fury over the regime's system of repression.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
13 Mar. 2026
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Events like this have begun to feel ordinary—recurring evidence of the mismatch between aging infrastructure and an emerging ecological reality.—
Eric Klinenberg,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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The judge said that conduct, as described in the complaint, could rise above ordinary discipline and implicate a constitutional violation of the student's right to bodily integrity.—
Amelia Mugavero,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Estrogen patches are generic medicines with low profit margins, providing manufacturers few incentives to invest quickly in new production lines or facilities that can take years to build.—
Reuters,
NBC news,
9 Apr. 2026
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Arthur is a creepy dude, a generic-looking cellphone store employee with an incomprehensible plan.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Nontechnical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontechnical. Accessed 11 Apr. 2026.
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