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Example sentences for: layman

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In this writing, legal means `pertaining to the law,' rather than `lawful'; layman means `non-lawyer' (including the feminine); he, him and his include the feminine; and Anglo-Saxon means `Old English.
Lawyers will understand that the author is inveighing against precedent only as a false pretense for fake precision, but an innocent layman straying into these pages might well take it from the broad-gauged blasts that the whole doctrine of precedent is a grand illusion, a sort of pseudo-science like astrology, in which lawyers and judges count the angels dancing on the point of a needle:
a layman's guide" (Adrian Wooldridge, the Wall Street Journal ).
Interestingly, in spite of their obscure origins, these are the only three racquet sports whose names communicate something specific to the layman.
One way of putting some of these racquet games into sharper focus would be to minimize use of the words paddle and racquet . To the layman, terms like paddleball, paddle tennis, racquets, racquetball , etc., just fuse into a blur.