nontechnical
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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The social-media company let go of its chief marketing officer and more than 20 staffers in nontechnical roles that were seen as duplicative.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The grid, through a combination of technical and nontechnical issues, loses almost half the load in delivery.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
“It’s hard to explain in a nontechnical fashion why what the prime minister did here is unreasonable,” said Professor Scheppele, the Princeton sociologist.
From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2023
It was only after allowing nontechnical employees to test the system on their commutes to and from work that Google’s team realized how troublesome the system was.
From Slate • Mar. 30, 2023
Out of all those interests grew my most recent book, a nontechnical account of human evolution entitled The Third Chimpanzee.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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