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351 examples of Amateur in a sentence

Feynman decided, as a sort of amateur helium physicist, that he would try to figure it out.
If you're an amateur, you don't have access to our machine anymore.
It wasn't until 79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by 81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.
Any powerful technology is inherently dual use, and, you know, you get something like synthetic biology, nanobiotechnology, it really compels you, you have to look at both the amateur groups but also the professional groups, because they have better infrastructure, they have better facilities, and they have access to pathogens.
I'm a little bit of an amateur historian, so I've spent some time going back, trying to see the first mention of this kind of thing.
For instance, there's eBird, where amateur birdwatchers can upload information about their bird sightings.
Of course, my work was very amateur, but let's turn to more famous examples.
You'll notice that a lot of comets are named after people you never heard of, amateur astronomers?
That one is just amateur stuff, but what she was saying, as you could make out, was about neurons, with her hands were like that, and she was saying neurons communicate.
We include everyone: the young, the elderly, the disabled, the mentally challenged, the blind, the elite, the amateur runners, even moms with their babies.
Jealousy makes us all amateur novelists, and this is something Proust understood.
User-generated content, spreading in businesses in extraordinarily valuable ways like these, celebrating amateur culture.
Hacking is really just any amateur innovation on an existing system, and it is a deeply democratic activity.
And we need industry structures that will accommodate very, very different motivations, from the amateur motivations of people in communities to maybe the social motivations of infrastructure built by governments, or, for that matter, cooperative institutions built by companies that are otherwise competing, because that is the only way that they can get to scale.
This was where the wealthy German businessman and amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann came in.
When I was a graduate student, my lab mate Tim Marzullo and myself, decided that what if we took this complex equipment that we have for studying the brain and made it simple enough and affordable enough that anyone that you know, an amateur or a high school student, could learn and actually participate in the discovery of neuroscience.
A husband, a son, a friend, a brother, a business owner, a first-class honors graduate, a keen amateur photographer.
You see, this time, amateur astronomers with their backyard telescopes stepped up immediately and started observing this star nightly at their own facilities, and I am so excited to see what they find.
Let me explain with a bit of amateur neuroscience.
It's an amateur parade; people come from all over the city; people get all dressed up.
The winners were a pair of amateur American chess players operating three ordinary PCs at the same time.
It was a platform where we created a list of stories designed for the smartphone, but it also allowed amateur writers to upload their own stories, so they could be showcased along with the very writers they read and admired.
In our amateur writing platform, we have writers that range from teenagers to housewives.
The quality of these amateur photographs can, at times, be amazing.
And it's amateur, but amateur in the best sense, in other words, the root of the word being of love and passion.
We've found, also, a lot of political films, a lot of amateur films, all sorts of things that are basically needing a home, a permanent home.
As an amateur artist Hermann was fascinated by how visual perception varies from person to person.
And just as in the early days, when there was a lot of sort of amateur interaction over computers, you can now get various hacking kits, how-to-hack books.
CA: I mean, Gary Kasparov said on the first day [of TED2017] that the winners of chess, surprisingly, turned out to be two amateur chess players with three mediocre-ish, mediocre-to-good, computer programs, that could outperform one grand master with one great chess player, like it was all part of the process.
I became obsessed with magic, and at 20, I became an amateur dove magician.
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