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

The topic is the biggest flex—and source of stress—in Silicon Valley, where tech pros and amateurs are competing to see how much of their grunt work they can outsource to AI without things backfiring spectacularly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 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

But when unpaid amateurs climb together, things becomes murkier.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2026

As with the search for extraterrestrial life today, the unbridled speculation of amateurs had frightened many professionals out of the field.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan