as in amateur
being such only for recreation
a charity auction of works by some of the town's more socially prominent Sunday painters
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amateur
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Investors cheered the improbable rise of the amateur heavy metal drummer and hard-line conservative, who’s expected to increase defense spending, cut taxes, and revive Japan’s nuclear power industry.—
Nicholas Gordon,
Fortune,
21 Oct. 2025 -
Daniel Kinahan, a keen amateur boxer, has always been in thrall to prizefighters.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
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“Sunday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Sunday. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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