amateur

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The industry faces challenges beyond tax incentives, including increased competition from amateur content, rising sports-rights costs and a potential AI impact on jobs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

He has never lost as an amateur nor a professional and his chin has rarely - if ever - been tested.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

She said their decision-making is “just as reckless as letting a group of amateur pilots dictate how our airplanes should fly.”

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2026

Like amateur detectives, we learn alongside them as they click around pages about Sumerian devils, Catholic saints and the origin of the nursery rhymes “London Bridge” and “Baa, Baa, Black Sheep.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2026

As is often the way in science, the principle had actually been anticipated three years previously by an amateur chemist in England named John Newlands.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson