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Making naloxone, a drug used to reverse opioid overdose that’s commonly known as Narcan, more widely available has been part of concentrated efforts to increase layperson intervention.
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Sam Tupper, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
Eggers plays the layperson with joy, marveling as anyone would, professing ignorance as anyone would.
—Longreads, 27 Sep. 2024
But a layperson would never know the webpage concerned one of the most formidable families in American media; there are no names or other identifying information.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
On the contrary, Inequality and Instability will probably be somewhat intimidating for the layperson.
—Gillian Tett, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
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Sam Tupper, CNN, 14 Oct. 2024
Eggers plays the layperson with joy, marveling as anyone would, professing ignorance as anyone would.
—Longreads, 27 Sep. 2024
But a layperson would never know the webpage concerned one of the most formidable families in American media; there are no names or other identifying information.
—Daniel Arkin, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2024
On the contrary, Inequality and Instability will probably be somewhat intimidating for the layperson.
—Gillian Tett, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
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“Layperson.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/layperson. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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