amateur

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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

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

It was these versions that made their way to an amateur collection.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 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

There were amateur sailing prints on the walls and on the shelves Petoskey stones, pinecones, musty paperbacks.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides