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Instead, he’s in Sweden, raising two boys, working as a quality control inspector for a textile company and playing amateur soccer for a team in the country’s fifth division.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The trouble with becoming an amateur food-safety inspector is that the job is never quite finished.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026

In the survey, 62% of players described themselves as professional, 27% selected semi-professional and 12% chose amateur.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

A new generation of individual investors discovered the markets during the post-Covid rally, and by early 2021 many amateur traders were pushing into more complicated, and often riskier, bets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 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

An old adage has it that strategy is for amateurs and logistics is for professionals.

From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026

William rode alongside top professional players and keen amateurs at the Guards Polo Club in Windsor Great Park.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

The actors, seasoned veterans as well as young amateurs, go through their lines and movements one last time before the curtain rises at the Wole Soyinka Theatre at the University of Ibadan, in southwest Nigeria.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

Court won 13 of her 24 Grand Slams before the Open Era began in 1968; before that, only amateurs were allowed to compete in Grand Slam tournaments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026

Luis Alvarez, who was privileged to serve as a protege of both Loomis and Lawrence, called him “the last of the great amateurs of science.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik