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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

“To me, as a layman and a couch athlete, the ability to throw a ball at 100 mph and then go out and hit three home runs?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2025

The fourth man identified at the meeting was former Member of Parliament Pavlo Unguryan, a layman who may be one of Ukraine’s most influential evangelical Christians.

From Salon ● Apr. 19, 2024

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

Savvy AI companies or a forward-thinking law firm will then learn enough to replace lawyers with a $99-a-month online service to guide laymen through divorce, custody and many other disputes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 11, 2026

While the term is used by laymen as a catch-all for electronic music, techno has a distinctive sound defined by a “four on the floor” uniform, rhythmic beat pattern.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2023

“It’d be something that’d be a little more formalized,” Ortiz said when asked whether he could envision a future where more laymen were granted passage into the college football tape repository.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022

PredictIt data has been cited in dozens of academic papers, with implications for the burgeoning economic theory of “superforecasting,” which states that financially motivated laymen can predict events with greater accuracy than credentialed experts.

From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2022

Gopal had taught me that magicians never reveal the secrets of their trade to laymen.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg