novice
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A political novice, Darline is a blank slate and has been notoriously press-shy since taking office.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
While Mr. Eisenkot isn’t a political novice, neither is he a career politician.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Holy relics employed in the proceedings line one wall, another features a one-way mirror that allows family members and novice exorcists to observe.
From Barron's ● Jul. 19, 2026
Daniel J. Sullivan is a retired school teacher and political novice.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2026
And that is perhaps the first and most fundamental thing that all novice oarsmen must learn about competitive rowing in the upper echelons of the sport: that pain is part and parcel of the deal.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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A better question is why novices with small balances don’t just buy and hold the one thing guaranteed to leave them satisfied after a great quarter—nearly-free index funds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
ETFs like these are easy for novices to work with and often have low fees.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 8, 2026
Baldy attracts both experienced hikers and novices to its picturesque alpine trails.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 15, 2026
Two of his past three fights have now come against boxing novices - first UFC fighter Francis Ngannou, and now Paul.
From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025
Knowing she had little hope of finding trained code breakers, she intended instead to search for novices with the potential to go far.
From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield
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