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Recent Examples of nontechnical
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.
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Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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
These early findings helped shape our understanding of the value of nontechnical skills and traits.
—Sandra Sjoberg, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
The organizations that thrive in the coming decades will be those that can master both the technical and the nontechnical, thereby realizing the value of true data and AI literacy.
—Ben Jones, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
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
These early findings helped shape our understanding of the value of nontechnical skills and traits.
—Sandra Sjoberg, The Conversation, 25 June 2025
The organizations that thrive in the coming decades will be those that can master both the technical and the nontechnical, thereby realizing the value of true data and AI literacy.
—Ben Jones, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontechnical
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The general guideline is for healthy adults to get 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity per week, along with at least two days of strength training and activities to improve balance.—
Melissa Rudy,
FOXNews.com,
27 Sep. 2025
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Expecting heavy rain, Joey, a general contractor and project manager, decided to work from home.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
27 Sep. 2025
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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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These are nonspecific symptoms that often lead to misdiagnosis with other illnesses such as influenza, malaria or typhoid fever.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
24 Sep. 2025
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The researchers recruited 34 adults who’d had chronic, nonspecific LBP for more than three months and randomly divided them into two groups.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
25 June 2025
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Some commentators have suggested that had Americans had earlier access to the Zapruder film, the conspiracy culture that metastasized around the killing of JFK and the more generalized distrust of institutions that went along with it may not have been quite so powerful.—
Time,
Time,
20 Sep. 2025
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Overlays, LLMs trained on inaccessible code, and generalized testing tools not optimized for digital accessibility will overwhelm your teams with false positives.—
Dylan Barrell,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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This fungus, usually seen as an ordinary decomposer, shows a remarkable ability to grow into hydrogels, the materials that hold water and mimic the softness of human tissue.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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An intimate portrait of love and exhaustion that finds the comic edge in ordinary chaos.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
1 Oct. 2025
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Aluminum tariffs also could impact generic drugmakers because many pill products have a foil package.—
Ken Alltucker,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
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For all of its applaudable deep research, the show is at once painstakingly specific in its references and somewhat generic in its beats.—
Li Goldstein,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
26 Sep. 2025
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“Nontechnical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontechnical. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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