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Recent Examples of nontechnical
For nontechnical readers, xenoglossy is the sudden ability to speak a language completely unknown to the individual.
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Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
The nontechnical term is Parade of Planets, but the technical term is planetary alignment.
—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
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Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2026
The nontechnical term is Parade of Planets, but the technical term is planetary alignment.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontechnical
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Sox general manager Chris Getz is simply giving more opportunities to his prospects after recently giving Rikuu Nishida a brief taste of the majors.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
19 June 2026
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The budget projects the district’s unrestricted general fund will end this year at $62 million in the red.—
Chaewon Chung,
Sacbee.com,
19 June 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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Normally, the innate immune system’s job is to provide a rapid, nonspecific response to an invading pathogen and to alert other, more specialized immune cells to prepare for battle.—
Claire Maldarelli,
Scientific American,
22 May 2026
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Indicators can be so subtle and nonspecific that doctors tend to misattribute them to other, more common, ailments—which can delay diagnosis, sometimes for years.—
Nami Mun,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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Affected babies may show symptoms including constipation, poor feeding, drooping eyelid, sluggish pupils, low muscle tone, difficulty sucking and swallowing, weak or altered crying, difficulty breathing, and generalized weakness.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
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What is in danger is that this will strip away the soul, the raw humanity actors like Jim Handy brough to each role and replace it with flat, generalized platitudes.—
Carl Kurlander,
Deadline,
13 June 2026
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The company’s founders say the idea came from watching ordinary people struggle to access opportunities that increasingly depended on technical knowledge.—
Malana VanTyler,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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Late Thursday, the plaintiffs filed a motion asking the court to order the Pentagon to resume its ordinary review process for new wind energy projects.—
Jennifer McDermott,
Fortune,
15 June 2026
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And pretty soon every email, ad and chat reply sounds like the same, generic brand in your category, but with your logo slapped on top.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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While generic, the sentiment hits harder when considered against some of the details about Smith's own relationships, and his own mental health, shared elsewhere on the project.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
18 June 2026
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“Nontechnical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontechnical. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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