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Eggers plays the layperson with joy, marveling as anyone would, professing ignorance as anyone would.
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Longreads, 27 Sep. 2024
But a layperson would never know the webpage concerned one of the most formidable families in American media; there are no names or other identifying information.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
On the contrary, Inequality and Instability will probably be somewhat intimidating for the layperson.
—Gillian Tett, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
Despite all that, conjectures by laypersons that the illness or death of acquaintances can be traced to the vaccines are legion.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
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Longreads, 27 Sep. 2024
But a layperson would never know the webpage concerned one of the most formidable families in American media; there are no names or other identifying information.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
On the contrary, Inequality and Instability will probably be somewhat intimidating for the layperson.
—Gillian Tett, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
Despite all that, conjectures by laypersons that the illness or death of acquaintances can be traced to the vaccines are legion.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2024
See all Example Sentences for layperson
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“Layperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/layperson. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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