How to Use nontechnical in a Sentence

nontechnical

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  • That’s not to say nontechnical founders shouldn’t make the effort to learn as much as possible.
    — Jake Hare, Forbes, 13 May 2022
  • Mountaineers flock to Mount Adams’s South Climb, a nontechnical 12-mile round-trip assault.
    — Benjamin Tepler, Outside Online, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Unions have made inroads in tech, though largely for nontechnical roles.
    — Greg Bensinger, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2019
  • In nontechnical terms, when one asset zigs, the other one zags.
    — Michael Taylor, ExpressNews.com, 30 Sep. 2020
  • And there were nontechnical issues that may have added to the chaos, such as new rules and worksheets that were designed to simplify the caucus process but seemed mostly to have sown confusion.
    — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The friends entered the army after high school, as is required for the majority of Israeli citizens, but served in nontechnical roles.
    — Washington Post, 18 July 2021
  • Unions have made some inroads, largely for nontechnical roles.
    — Greg Bensinger, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2019
  • There’s also a need to make all that information digestible for people in nontechnical roles.
    — Steve Gickling, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
  • All the technical or nontechnical skills required for the job will evolve naturally.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Some of the engineers at Ledger didn’t understand why those nontechnical hires were necessary.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2022
  • In these conditions, the coat functions as the outerwear equivalent of a sweatshirt, a relaxed and nontechnical garment that’s well suited to leisurely tromps for coffee or detours through the park to admire the sparkling trees.
    — Aleta Burchyski, Outside Online, 26 Jan. 2020
  • And, as daunting as the looming data crush appears from a technical perspective, some of the greatest challenges are wholly nontechnical.
    — Quanta Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
  • But there are good nontechnical responses to all of Alito’s concerns.
    — Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Slate Magazine, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Some research found that technical skills were more consistently stereotyped by both men and women than were nontechnical skills.
    — Matthew J. Liberatore, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2020
  • There will most likely be crimeware as a service that will be made available to cybercriminals and nontechnical people to take advantage of.
    — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 15 Dec. 2021
  • And despite good performance reviews, Chiampa said, she was steered toward nontechnical project management tasks instead of the development work she’d been hired for.
    — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Our goal is to empower even nontechnical users to harness the full potential of robotics using ChatGPT.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 3 Mar. 2023
  • SMBs can use no-code tools to create, organize and automate business workflows handled by employees in nontechnical roles.
    — Borya Shakhnovich, Forbes, 10 May 2021
  • Hinton is also worried about how A.I. could change the job market by rendering nontechnical jobs irrelevant.
    — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 1 May 2023
  • Being able to approach a problem from multiple perspectives and having the ability to communicate with nontechnical staff are important skills as well.
    — Nicole Janssen, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
  • Disney’s Code: Rosie initiative recruits and trains women in nontechnical positions for software engineering roles that are in high demand.
    — Liz Hilton Segel, Fortune, 6 June 2019
  • For example, warehouse workers in fulfillment centers could be trained for technical roles in IT and nontechnical workers could be retrained as software engineers.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 11 July 2019
  • Additionally, the use of application platform as a service (aPaaS) gives nontechnical users the visual tools to build highly functional business applications without the need to write code.
    — Sudhir Mehta, Forbes, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Engaging a nontechnical audience will require a different PR approach, starting with establishing key messages that clearly state the value for the end user.
    — Ayelet Noff, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • In general, the jobs tend to be nontechnical roles such as customer support or administrative and operational positions.
    — Mike Isaac and Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
  • Bug bashes occur when the entire company, including nontechnical employees, focus on thoroughly testing the product instead of their day-to-day duties.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 4 Mar. 2021
  • Specialists now range from the hackers who can break into networks or develop ransomware to the nontechnical operators who negotiate payments with victims.
    — Alan Suderman, ajc, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Other positions included a number of software jobs, as well as nontechnical positions.
    — Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Or should they be made available to a number of nontechnical employees, so the organization can benefit from cultural change and collective innovation?
    — Gabriel Nahas, Fortune, 3 June 2022
  • These are typically nontechnical jobs requiring little interaction with colleagues and repetitive tasks like responding to emails or drafting documents from templates.
    — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 25 July 2023

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