dabbler

Example Sentences

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I consider myself a bit of a dabbler — always willing to learn about something or try something new, and then I dive deep into the rabbit hole with certain stuff.

From The Verge • Jan. 27, 2022

He has long been a spiritual dabbler, with a weakness for what some regard as quackery.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2022

Laurie Anderson could be considered a modern Renaissance woman but she would humbly say that she's "just a dabbler and a tinkerer".

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2021

“What Yogananda brought is a fairly advanced and much more comprehensive meditation practice for people who feel they don’t want to be a dabbler anymore,” Brother Chidananda said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2020

It was not so much later that Herrick remembered him as a literary dabbler, an amateur statesman, endeavoring by means of elegant Ciceronics to waken his class to its duty as leader of the people!

From "Persons Unknown" by Tracy, Virginia