in plain English
Example Sentences
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If a lawyer is going to charge a contingency fee, the client should be told, in plain English, what the lawyer knows about the underlying claim value.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 30, 2026
Here’s the investment case in plain English: The science works.
From MarketWatch • Dec. 23, 2025
"Instead of juggling 10 links with search, you get a brief synthesis that you can edit and iterate in plain English," he says.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
Or, in plain English, a world where tens of millions of electric vehicle batteries provide the flexible storage capacity that renewable energy requires.
From Slate • Jul. 18, 2024
“Your wife and I?” she said in plain English.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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