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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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The Fields pairs highly adaptable facilities with expert, hands-on production support — a combination that general manager RoseMary Prodonovich says is designed to fuel creative endeavors.—
Kathy A. McDonald,
Variety,
15 May 2026
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Husband is a genuinely excellent partner and a kind, funny, good person in general.—
Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
15 May 2026
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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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Patients often begin with nonspecific symptoms such as fever, fatigue, headaches, and muscle pain before rapidly deteriorating into respiratory failure and shock.—
Steve Brozak,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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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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These should be focused on a specific episode/arc/song/narrative element, rather than a generalized conversation or a simple press junket.—
Vulture Editors,
Vulture,
12 May 2026
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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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By evening, the Aries Moon moves through your 9th House of Expansion, stirring adventure, passion, and plans that stretch beyond the ordinary.—
Tarot.com,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 May 2026
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But there is a big difference between ordinary political competition and a coordinated national effort to purge state lawmakers for exercising independent judgment on a matter before their own legislature.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
11 May 2026
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Rather than prescribing a generic gym split, Jimenez’s programming prioritized cardiovascular efficiency, resistance training, stability, and mobility.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
14 May 2026
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India and Canada recently approved their first generic versions of Ozempic, and countries including China, Brazil and South Africa are expected to soon follow, according to Robin Feldman, a pharmaceutical and intellectual property law expert at the University of California Law San Francisco.—
Berkeley Lovelace Jr,
NBC news,
13 May 2026
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“Nontechnical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontechnical. Accessed 16 May. 2026.
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