laypeople

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If so, a distinctive prediction follows: Laypeople will make decent lawmakers using their sense of justice even when they have no training in law.

From Salon • Nov. 2, 2022

Laypeople are not permitted to shop at the warehouse, and there are generally no listed prices.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2021

Laypeople sometimes have difficulty understanding exactly what producers and directors do.

From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2019

Laypeople who cannot expect to receive five grand’s worth of Yeezys will be well served by other merchandise from Kanye West, who naturally joins Bieber as the other leading saint of this scene.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 14, 2019

Laypeople tend to see dictionaries as prescriptive arbiters of words’ true meanings.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2017