neophyte

Ramaswamy burst onto the national political scene in 2023 as a neophyte with a knack for using social media and podcast appearances to bolster his image.

From BBC ● May 5, 2026

David Calder is no travel neophyte, having visited more than 30 countries for work and fun.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

Yet Corum has gone through the Rams’ offseason program with an attitude that tilted more neophyte than seasoned performer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2024

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Tuesday named Nicole Shanahan, a Silicon Valley lawyer, investor and political neophyte, as his running mate in his independent presidential bid.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Key to their transformation has been the crypto sector, where they were all neophytes a few years ago, but now run businesses that raised billions of dollars from investors before the market turned sour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 8, 2026

So we figured that even as total neophytes, there was a chance we could make a coin that would go to the moon.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

They saved money by hiring neophytes and then letting them go once they got enough experience to demand a larger salary.

From Salon ● Dec. 19, 2024

The campaign started as an unlikely bid for two political neophytes trying to get the area to elect a Latino for the first time.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 26, 2024

The earliest Spanish missionaries were especially prone to believe that by retaining some of 346the former ceremonies they would facilitate the work of conversion, and increase the number of neophytes.

From Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl Ritter von