nontechnical
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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Elon Musk’s X let go of its chief marketing officer and over 20 nontechnical staff following recent mergers of X with xAI and xAI with SpaceX.
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
That up-close-and-personal encounter with the mighty Tahoma led her to hiking and nontechnical mountaineering with local clubs like Seattle Outdoor Adventures and The Mountaineers.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2022
Appreciating the treelike nature of a text can also help you understand one of the few devices available in nontechnical prose to visually mark the structure of discourse: the paragraph break.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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