amateur
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In real life, he had unsuccessful trials for Southend United and Brighton & Hove Albion as a teenager, and played for an amateur Sunday league club where he was a top scorer.
From BBC • May 12, 2026
“He was truly the last amateur to win the Cup.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026
It started out as an idyllic trip, with 59 crew attending to the 88 passengers -- most of them amateur birdwatchers aged 60 and up, Cenet, who is 35, told AFP in an interview.
From Barron's • May 6, 2026
The fossil was discovered by an amateur collector in the Judith River Formation in Montana, a region known for preserving a rich record of a 75-million-year-old ecosystem.
From Science Daily • May 5, 2026
They’d mastered the techniques of cell culture and simplified them to such a degree that, as one researcher put it, they’d “made it possible for even the rank amateur to grow a few cultures.”
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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