amateurs

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The so-called secondary draft, which was discontinued six years later, was specifically targeted toward winter high school graduates, junior college players, college dropouts and amateurs who had been previously drafted but did not sign.

From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026

Welcome to the age of AI hacking, in which the right prompts make amateurs into master hackers.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026

The NBA draft—like its counterparts in the NFL and MLB—is designed to help the weakest teams, by sending the top amateurs their way to jump-start a rebuild.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 1, 2026

Some observers may have called the burglars amateurs, but a source with knowledge of the probe said they were "not such bunglers after all".

From Barron's • Jan. 19, 2026

When these amateurs heard that the ancestors of Indians must have come to the Americas thousands of years ago, a surprising number of them decided to hunt for the evidence that would prove it.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann