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Recent Examples of layperson
The updates themselves are rather technical and may not do much to excite a layperson, but the brand’s efforts have been well received by those in the know.
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Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
For a medicine to be granted OTC status, it must be deemed sufficiently safe to do so without monitoring from a medical professional, be effective, and include labeling understandable to the layperson to ensure proper use.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
And again, there were a lot of medical professionals, or at least those who were trained to be there at the marathon, and laypersons, too, who just knew what to do, who placed tourniquets on immediately.
—Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
The layperson tends to assume that a precise and fully calculable means exists to produce a mental health diagnosis to an ironclad nth degree.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Riley Jones, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
For a medicine to be granted OTC status, it must be deemed sufficiently safe to do so without monitoring from a medical professional, be effective, and include labeling understandable to the layperson to ensure proper use.
—Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
And again, there were a lot of medical professionals, or at least those who were trained to be there at the marathon, and laypersons, too, who just knew what to do, who placed tourniquets on immediately.
—Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
The layperson tends to assume that a precise and fully calculable means exists to produce a mental health diagnosis to an ironclad nth degree.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for layperson
layman
Noun
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In layman’s terms, your portion of the Oklo pie has just become a bit smaller.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
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In layman’s terms, before the development, lenses were all created from flat pieces of glass.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
9 July 2025
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“Layperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/layperson. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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