novice

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After years of working in his garden, the former novice has figured out what grows well in his yard’s different spots.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

But start-ups have emerged offering app production for the novice, with the help of AI.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

The bespectacled middleman started at Dubai-based commodities firm Coral Energy as a novice trader in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

Davignon, who went on to become a vice president of the European Commission in the 1980s, was a novice diplomat at the time of the assassination.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

In 2006, at the time of the accident that took Keith’s and Jim’s lives, there were no laws explicitly covering texting and driving, except several prohibiting the behavior among novice drivers.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel