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Recent Examples of layperson
For a medicine to be granted OTC status, it must be deemed sufficiently safe to do so without monitoring from a medical professional, be effective, and include labeling understandable to the layperson to ensure proper use.
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
And again, there were a lot of medical professionals, or at least those who were trained to be there at the marathon, and laypersons, too, who just knew what to do, who placed tourniquets on immediately.
—Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
The layperson tends to assume that a precise and fully calculable means exists to produce a mental health diagnosis to an ironclad nth degree.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
To the layperson, this wall would appear essentially blank and completely devoid of hand or footholds.
—Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2025
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Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
And again, there were a lot of medical professionals, or at least those who were trained to be there at the marathon, and laypersons, too, who just knew what to do, who placed tourniquets on immediately.
—Maria Fontoura, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2025
The layperson tends to assume that a precise and fully calculable means exists to produce a mental health diagnosis to an ironclad nth degree.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025
To the layperson, this wall would appear essentially blank and completely devoid of hand or footholds.
—Owen Clarke, Outside Online, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for layperson
layman
Noun
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India’s lower batting order stunk the place out in layman’s terms - a crucial difference between winning and losing.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
2 July 2025
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The immaculate print appeared to this layman’s eye to look about as sharp as contemporary digital Imax, but with the celluloid origins and print adding additional richness.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
30 Apr. 2025
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“Layperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/layperson. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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