nonspecialist

Example Sentences

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A nonspecialist can only speculate on whether what goes on when the mother panda wanders off ultimately becomes part of the cub’s subconscious memory.

From Washington Post

After World War II, when the most prominent scientists of the day—Albert Einstein, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Linus Pauling—reflected on the wider significance of their science for a nonspecialist audience, values and assumptions taken for granted in research journals came out into the open in the pages of Scientific American.

From Scientific American

Michael Lewis has used it to make nonspecialist readers not just pick up but tear through books about baseball talent scouting, collateralized debt obligation and the intricacies of government bureaucracy.

From New York Times

The study, which presents a complete revised version of Ali Quli Qarai’s already published translation alongside Reynolds’s running commentary on all its intersections with the Bible, is explicitly meant for the nonspecialist English-language reader.

From The New Yorker

It is not easy to write meaningfully about music without resorting to technical terminology, and the list of those authors who can find accessible language to convey its subtleties to the nonspecialist is depressingly short.

From New York Times