layman

"Things are going to need replacing like his wheelchair and the van, they're big things to pay out for which are not what the layman needs," said his wife Anna.

From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026

His voice throughout is that of a well-informed, open-minded layman who, almost by the way, is a natural storyteller.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026

To the layman, a self-propelled howitzer looks like a tank, but it has a bigger, 155mm gun to fire at longer range.

From Salon ● May 19, 2024

Yet here was a layman using his own money to open shiny new schools that quickly filled with a new generation of Catholics, albeit largely rich ones.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 2023

But the experts do not post exact rules, and the layman is apt to fall back upon his final line of defense: “Well, I don’t know anything about art, but I know what I like.”

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson

Enormous companies use it to work faster, and their engineers know enough about code to use it more powerfully than laymen.

From Slate ● Apr. 14, 2026

Savvy AI companies or a forward-thinking law firm will then learn enough to replace lawyers with a $99-a-month online service to guide laymen through divorce, custody and many other disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

While the term is used by laymen as a catch-all for electronic music, techno has a distinctive sound defined by a “four on the floor” uniform, rhythmic beat pattern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

“It’d be something that’d be a little more formalized,” Ortiz said when asked whether he could envision a future where more laymen were granted passage into the college football tape repository.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

Gopal had taught me that magicians never reveal the secrets of their trade to laymen.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg