amateur

Example Sentences

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Without playing amateur psychologist, I wonder if she found love so scary because her background as a classically-trained musician required her to be disciplined and regimented from an early age?

From BBC • May 2, 2026

These discs can grow and fade over time, causing changes in brightness that continue to attract amateur astronomers today.

From Science Daily • May 1, 2026

Its blockchain-based technology, however, allows amateur sleuths to spot suspicious trading activity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

Heather Salt, an amateur fossil hunter from Solihull near Birmingham, said she travelled down to Lyme Regis in hopes of finding something for her own collection.

From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026

Nor did he supply the darkroom facilities that hotels closest to Jackson Park had begun installing to serve the growing number of amateur photographers, so-called “Kodak fiends,” who carried the newest portable cameras.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson