as in amateur
a person who regularly or occasionally engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession
he's been tinkering with cars since he was a kid, and now he's a tinkerer who knows nearly as much as a mechanic
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Noun
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Even to an amateur’s eye, the crisp, exacting corners and lines of the concrete walls prove noticeable.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025 -
Hernandez has the pitching skills to be a top-five selection in this summer’s MLB amateur draft.—
Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Feb. 2025
Noun
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In layman’s terms, Trump is keeping foreign leaders on their toes.—
Christian Datoc,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
25 Jan. 2025
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His seductive and affable manner of describing the essence of a budding romance in layman’s terms is inviting.—
Priscella Vega,
Los Angeles Times,
4 Jan. 2025
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Born in the country market town of Briggs, Lincolnshire, on Oct. 28, 1929, in the less affluent north of England, Joan Ann Plowright was the daughter of a local newspaper editor and his homemaker wife, a gifted dabbler in amateur dramatics who encouraged her daughter to act.—
Stephen Galloway,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Others are simply dabblers, like Justin Liam O’Brien.—
Julia Binswanger,
Smithsonian Magazine,
18 July 2024
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“Tinkerer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinkerer. Accessed 1 Mar. 2025.
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