amateur

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Shady Bets: Online sleuthing helped catch the “Google insider” on Polymarket after amateur observers spotted suspicious trades on the crypto-based betting platform.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

He also enjoyed a successful amateur boxing career as a lightweight at the Penarth club that his brother Bert established to help World War One veterans overcome Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - then called shell shock.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

What Lily couldn’t have foreseen, of course, was that her amateur detective skills would become necessary when, one day, George is found dead, and the investigation by a bumbling local policeman isn’t up to snuff.

From Salon • May 25, 2026

Using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, Juno's onboard camera, and even images captured by amateur astronomers, the team pinpointed the locations of several unusual storms Wong called "stealth" superstorms.

From Science Daily • May 21, 2026

There are portraits of a woman and a little girl, small amateur photographs taken against an ivy-clad wall.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque