layman
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What Mr. Ahamed withholds are the strong, respectable arguments to embrace, not to shun, the boogeyman that Federal Reserve economists style “deflation” but that a layman might rather recognize as human progress.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 29, 2026
The need for O'Neill to explain the concessions in such layman terms speaks volumes.
From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025
An entire subset of TikTok is titled “The Tea on Why Friendships End on Vacations,” where layman advisers explain why this is such a common issue.
From Salon • Mar. 10, 2025
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
It is a formidable roadblock, this stock phrase, in the path of understanding between expert and layman.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
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