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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As groups of amateur boxers stream into the Paris gym for class, Khelif slips away to grab a bite at her favorite Algerian café.—
Kara Fox,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026 -
Most of the stars observed by Kepler were fainter than magnitude 13 in our sky, so HD 137010b's star is an outlier at magnitude 10, bringing it in range of even 6-inch (150mm) amateur telescopes.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
4 Feb. 2026
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“Sunday.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Sunday. Accessed 9 Feb. 2026.
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