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rookie

noun as in novice

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The rookie has allowed three or more goals in seven of his nine starts.

It’s hard especially when you’re a rookie in your first year and you want to work out, want to improve and it can’t happen.

Patience is in order all around given the many challenges facing rookies during this unusual season, including their shortened post-draft acclimation.

To narrow the pool further, only seven first-round quarterbacks in that span have won a playoff game and none of them did it as a rookie.

Haskins started seven games as a rookie and showed improvement late in the year.

The Lion Air captain had left his rookie copilot to make the landing until he realized he was in trouble.

They castigated the captain, a 48-year-old Indonesian, and his rookie copilot, a 24-year-old Indian.

One of the rookie officers, Peter Liang, was walking with a flashlight in one hand and his gun in the other.

A 28-year-old gunned down in a dark, New York City hallway by a rookie cop who apparently made a fatal mistake.

Still, he was locked into his rookie contract, and had to ride out two more dysfunctional seasons of the show.

What's all that nonsense Ferrers gives us about the old days when he was such a rookie from civil life?

A Reservist is a dug-out, a recruit a rookie, and a veteran an old sweat.

No, admitted the rookie reluctantly, yo nevah tol me nuthin.

Some of the happier memories of my rookie days die with him.

McRae had taken him when he was a raw rookie and given him his chance with the Giants to show what he could do.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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