amateur
Example Sentences
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Now there was a Reddit forum called WallStreetBets, where amateur retail investors banded together around highly volatile securities, turning quick and substantial profits.
But when unpaid amateurs climb together, things becomes murkier.
From BBC
A Turkish amateur footballer has gone viral for saving a seagull's life with CPR after it was struck down during an Istanbul match.
From Barron's
Taylor has been boxing for more of her life than she hasn't, taking up the sport aged 12 and making her amateur debut in 2001.
From BBC
The controversy over Lifetouch was caused by an army of amateur detectives looking for hidden links in the Epstein files.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
