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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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Bus lanes there are physically separated from general traffic.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 May 2026
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While general manager Jeff Pagliocca has been quick to trade high draft picks in the past, the front office still has a desire to build through the draft — and has not been successful in that endeavor.—
Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
8 May 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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This suggests the decline in small-c conservatism is perhaps even greater than the generalized drop-off that shows up in the polling.—
Abby McCloskey,
Twin Cities,
7 May 2026
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These generalized standards—none of which speak directly to the quality of the program service provided—are very easy to meet for the vast majority of stations.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
29 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Each episode closes the gap between inspiration and action, reminding audiences that remarkable brands are built by ordinary people who choose to keep going.—
Ascend Agency,
New York Daily News,
4 May 2026
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The only administrative requirements should be the ordinary ones that are necessary in order to maintain any system, such as confirming identity and preventing fraud, not ones that screen people out of necessary care.—
Kaitlyn Schallhorn,
Oc Register,
4 May 2026
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But the company is bracing itself for an avalanche of cheaper generic versions of its drug as the patent protecting its active ingredient, semaglutide, expires this year in several countries, including India and China.—
Anna Cooban,
CNN Money,
7 May 2026
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The environments themselves often resemble generic fantasy soundstages, and at a point, every arena feels distinct yet meaningless.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
6 May 2026
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“Nontechnical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontechnical. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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