novice
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As a novice motorman he was once confused by the glaring beams; “red lights shone in front of me like the rifle barrels of an approaching platoon.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026
Gina: A Grade One-winning novice chaser who hasn't really progressed this season in the way his promising first start of the campaign suggested he would.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
The investing novice says the market always comes back.
From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026
The bespectacled middleman started at Dubai-based commodities firm Coral Energy as a novice trader in 2014.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026
In 2006, at the time of the accident that took Keith’s and Jim’s lives, there were no laws explicitly covering texting and driving, except several prohibiting the behavior among novice drivers.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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