laypeople
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This is a distinctly new aura for bisexuality, which for decades some sex researchers and laypeople insisted didn’t exist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
The people this term doesn’t include are those—often self-diagnosed laypeople or the patients of anti-scientific practitioners—who believe that they have insidious Lyme infections missed by blood tests and persistent beyond any normal antibiotic treatment.
From Slate ● Dec. 19, 2025
Like most laypeople, you’re not in an authoritative position to judge the accuracy and thoroughness of your estate-planning documents.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 6, 2025
Negative public perceptions about AI could put tech companies at a disadvantage when such cases go before juries of laypeople.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2025
Most laypeople and many historians assume, expressly or tacitly, that the answer is yes.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
