amateur

Example Sentences

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And he only had four years of Nippon Professional Baseball experience before deciding to leave Japan, posting early and signing as an international amateur free agent last year, as Shohei Ohtani did in 2017.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026

Locatelli, a chef and restauranteur who currently appears on the Italian version of the amateur cooking show, will be seen alongside Grace Dent on the next UK celebrity series, which has already been filmed.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

There’s a reason Musk bought Twitter, a reason Pratt talks the way he does about statistics, and a reason amateur creators blow so much money on their A.I. bills.

From Slate • Jun. 3, 2026

The amateur wine enthusiast learns to pronounce “gewürztraminer” and cannot resist doing so.

From Salon • Jun. 2, 2026

They’d mastered the techniques of cell culture and simplified them to such a degree that, as one researcher put it, they’d “made it possible for even the rank amateur to grow a few cultures.”

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot