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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
Adjective
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The wind and current was such that, as the plane flew over us and dropped the bales of cocaine, the cargo would theoretically stay in the general area between where I was stationed in the Mako and where our mothership was anchored.—
Martin Suarez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
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In general, why should moist soil be a problem for plants if water is so crucial to their growth?—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
13 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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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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The laboratory tests should include the standard blood panels and prostate specific antigen, which is a sensitive, albeit nonspecific, test of prostate pathology.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
23 June 2025
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Not abstract, delayed or generalized data, but precise, real-time and location-specific insights delivered from the world’s most remote forests, deepest watersheds and most polluted urban corridors.—
Michael De Nil,
Forbes.com,
11 Sep. 2025
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In fact, this is one of the criteria used to help diagnose generalized anxiety disorder.4 Anxiety can cause trouble with focus, or brain fog, for various reasons.—
Angela Ryan Lee,
Verywell Health,
4 Sep. 2025
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National reconciliation is Lee’s priority despite controversies Ex-President Yoon’s martial law declaration brought tens of thousands of ordinary South Koreans onto the street and rekindled dark memories of military rule.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
17 Sep. 2025
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In their experiments, the researchers froze water with different amounts of ordinary salt (NaCl).—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Sep. 2025
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Democrats are doing fairly well in the generic congressional ballot, which tests which party voters prefer to control Congress.—
W. James Antle III,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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First approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1996, this medication is now available in generic forms.—
Katia Hetter,
CNN Money,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Nontechnical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontechnical. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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