lay person
Example Sentences
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"They send such a bewildering amount of information through that a lay person couldn't understand it," he said.
From BBC • Jan. 26, 2026
The meaning is not something that a lay person can necessarily intuit.
From Salon • Sep. 8, 2025
“Even a lay person has the common sense to see exigent circumstances exist to enter these homes,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
"I also express my pain and shock over the killing in Mexico the day before yesterday of two religious brothers of mine, Jesuits, and one lay person," Francis said.
From Reuters • Jun. 22, 2022
It declared that no emperor, king, duke, marquis, count, or any other lay person should presume to grant investiture, under pain of excommunication.
From Early European History by Webster, Hutton
