nontechnical
Britishadjective
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Coinbase’s recent announcement made some social-media users wonder if it was actually a good thing for nontechnical staffers to dabble in coding, even with AI assistance.
From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026
Over the past few weeks, X let go of more than 20 staffers in nontechnical roles including marketing and other departments that were seen as duplicative to jobs inside the merged company, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
The nontechnical side of organizations are just talking about it as a text-based system that gives answers.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2023
The grid, through a combination of technical and nontechnical issues, loses almost half the load in delivery.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 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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