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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
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As part of a two-question ballot measure, the Hickman Mills School District is asking voters to approve a general obligation bond to pay down the district’s debt.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
4 Apr. 2026
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But there is some risk the city will need to increase its general fund contribution in the new fiscal year because there are expected to be cuts to state funding.—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Apr. 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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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
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Rather than pursuing generalized robotics applications, Mbodi AI is focused on solving specific, high-value challenges.—
Maria Williams,
USA Today,
24 Mar. 2026
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January's wave of protests in Iran was sparked by economic discontent and eventually widened to encompass more generalized fury over the regime's system of repression.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
13 Mar. 2026
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Deuterium can replace one or both of the ordinary hydrogen atoms in water, which is what scientists mean by deuterium enrichment.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
30 Mar. 2026
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For instance, investments that give off income that is taxed at ordinary rates go into retirement accounts like IRAs, said CFP Cathy Curtis, founder and CEO of Curtis Financial Planning.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
30 Mar. 2026
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Foundayo is a small molecule whereas Zepbound and Wegovy are peptides, which require more intensive manufacturing processes, a barrier Ricks thinks will hinder generic versions of Wegovy that have recently launched in some other countries, including India.—
Angelica Peebles,Annika Kim Constantino,
CNBC,
1 Apr. 2026
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Without that, intelligence — human or artificial — becomes generic.—
Jason Dressel,
Fortune,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Nontechnical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontechnical. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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