dabbler
Example Sentences
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David Byrne came from Baltimore by way of Scotland, a socially awkward dabbler in conceptualist experiments with photography and a veteran of various mediocre cover bands.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
I consider myself a bit of a dabbler — always willing to learn about something or try something new, and then I dive deep into the rabbit hole with certain stuff.
From The Verge ● Jan. 27, 2022
He has long been a spiritual dabbler, with a weakness for what some regard as quackery.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2022
Laurie Anderson could be considered a modern Renaissance woman but she would humbly say that she's "just a dabbler and a tinkerer".
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2021
A dabbler in commissions, in fact, rather than a buyer and seller of diamonds in quantities on his own account.
From The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator by Arthur Morrison
