amateur

The amateur sleuths spent Saturday night gathered outside the Cioni house.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

An amateur cricket league has expressed its "genuine concern for the welfare" of Saltburn Cricket Club members over a recent finger clicking controversy that has made global headlines.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

So when things go badly inside the opaque world of many private schools, it can be left to parents, police, journalists and amateur sleuths to find and expose wrongdoing.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

"If you're the smartest person in the room, you need to leave and find another room where you'll feel like an amateur," she added.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

But he was an expert horseman, a self- taught violinist, and an amateur geologist, astronomer, and natural historian.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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

He noted that Hezbollah operators were still relative amateurs compared with Russians and Ukrainians but Israel’s defenses fall well short of what’s required to combat them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026

Unusually, Rai wears two gloves instead of the one which virtually everyone else across the world - professional and amateurs alike - wears for enhanced grip.

From BBC ● May 18, 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