layman

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The Vatican office that Fernandez now heads has processed priest abuse cases globally since 2001, meting out church punishments that are never more severe than being defrocked, or “reduced” back to being a layman.

From Seattle Times

He was among the first to articulate in clear, layman’s prose why the United States was in the midst of rapidly rising health care costs, while costs in other countries stayed manageable.

From New York Times

“Quite simply, and in layman’s terms, you do not have a case.”

From Los Angeles Times

Meanwhile, a website for the Catholic Church in Germany, Katholisch.de, reported that public prosecutors were separately investigating a layman identified among the 15 on suspicion of possessing "criminal content".

From BBC

However, not long after Trump's statement, his attorney John Lauro said that there were no immediate plans to pursue a recusal and that the former president had merely been speaking "with a layman's political sense."

From Salon