amateur
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She is nicknamed 'Meatball' because she used to work at Subway to pay the bills when she started out as an amateur MMA fighter.
From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026
McIlroy played with 18-year-old amateur Mason Howell, who was sufficiently impressed as the defending champion birdied each of the final four holes.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026
One of those was Mason Howell, the reigning U.S. amateur champion who is playing in the same group as McIlroy this week.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
I want to return to one phrase from the IRS’ requirements for being designated as a tax-exempt nonprofit: “fostering national or international amateur sports competition.”
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
The belemnite, it turned out, had been discovered four years earlier by an amateur naturalist named Chaning Pearce, and the discovery had been fully reported at a meeting of the Geological Society.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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