layperson

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David and Margaret meet in England in 1963, where David is a popular young priest and Margaret, though a layperson, is working at his side to teach theology to female seminarians.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

Where babies are harmed because of clinical negligence, the projected payouts can appear very sizable to the layperson.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024

“I’m just a layperson, one of hundreds of millions in this country, watching scary, extreme weather become the new normal,” she explained in an email.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

That relationship was complex and perhaps illicit, and, like much else in this speculative financial world, too complicated for a layperson to understand.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

Prepared by the Presidents Advisory Committee on Science in March 1958 as a primer on spaceflight, the brochure laid out the scientific principles of travel beyond the Earth’s atmosphere in terms a layperson could understand.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly