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Recent Examples of nontechnical
This tool is designed for the wider group of nontechnical users, who may want to experiment with a new way of controlling their computers but get freaked out by a command line.
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Reece Rogers, Wired News, 15 Jan. 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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Reece Rogers, Wired News, 15 Jan. 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
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Geopolitics aside, this news is a huge deal for the BCIs in general.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
14 Mar. 2026
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Vaughn Hardenberg Westwood The Dodgers’ Andrew Friedman gets all the attention and accolades as being one of the smartest and most successful general managers in sports, and deservedly so.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Mar. 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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The first signs are nonspecific, including fever, cough, a runny nose and red eyes.—
Meg Wingerter,
Denver Post,
6 Mar. 2026
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This swelling is often accompanied by other nonspecific viral symptoms, including fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue and loss of appetite.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
5 Mar. 2026
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But the lessons from the generalized version of special relativity — general relativity — which includes gravitation, goes well beyond our Solar System.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
12 Mar. 2026
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In this new era of stakeholder management, however, broad frameworks, generalized commitments, and aspirational language are obsolete.—
Martin Whittaker,
Fortune,
19 Feb. 2026
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These sometimes deceptively simple books are quietly powerful demonstrations that the stories of ordinary women are significant, worth telling, and also a pleasure to read.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
16 Mar. 2026
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This is not your ordinary country band but rather a mix of indie rock sonics, folk songwriting and country sensibilities all wrapped up in one.—
Hema Sivanandam,
Mercury News,
16 Mar. 2026
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The bill does not restore coverage for Biktarvy, the most popular once-a-day pill, and other medications will be switched to their generic versions.—
Ana Goñi-Lessan,
Sun Sentinel,
12 Mar. 2026
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That was a fairly generic paragraph to open an article about reading.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
11 Mar. 2026
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“Nontechnical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontechnical. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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