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or dilettanti
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as in amateurs
a person who regularly or occasionally engages in an activity as a pastime rather than as a profession
a dilettante at heart, she was never willing to commit the time and effort that ballet demands
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as in connoisseurs
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a person having a knowledgeable and fine appreciation of the arts
she writes about art not from the point of view of an artist but from that of a committed dilettante
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Recent Examples of dilettantes
Packer and Srulovich aren’t dilettantes, either.
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Lela London, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Lela London, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dilettantes
Noun
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The Padres’ first move of the offseason will flesh out the club’s current crop of international amateurs.—
Jeff Sanders,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
9 Oct. 2025
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Composite sticks, made of carbon fiber and other lightweight advanced materials, are now far more popular and preferred by both amateurs and professionals.—
Joseph Hostetler,
Fortune,
7 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Welcome back, fellow diplomacy connoisseurs, to The Diplomat, season three, the show where the most outrageous thing is almost guaranteed to happen in every episode.—
Sophie Brookover,
Vulture,
16 Oct. 2025
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As Contenders connoisseurs know, this is an exclusive Deadline event designed for voting guild members.—
The Deadline Team,
Deadline,
29 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Founded by engineers, designers, and lifelong tinkerers frustrated by the barriers to traditional CNC manufacturing, the company’s mission is to make powerful digital fabrication tools smarter, simpler, and more accessible.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
16 Oct. 2025
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This Space Cowboys vibe makes sense because this tech boom looks less like the last one — social apps powered by subway ads and nap pods — than the 1980s PC revolution, powered by tinkerers with motherboards and soldering irons.—
Liz Hoffman,
semafor.com,
14 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Most legal scholars interpret this to mean that the president’s duty is to spend the money Congress appropriates, and that the president does not have the power to withhold funds.—
Andy Kroll,
ProPublica,
18 Oct. 2025
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Yet Trump’s mercurial nature has given other presidential scholars, who cited the president’s six-month journey to even suggest that Vance and Rubio were in the running to succeed him, some hesitancy.—
Mabinty Quarshie,
The Washington Examiner,
18 Oct. 2025
Noun
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With no way to communicate, the surviving man, identified as Paul Council, located a canoe and made his way back to North Hero to alert the authorities of the incident.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Following Zhao’s resignation as CEO, Binance installed Richard Teng, a former financial regulator in the UAE and Singapore, as head of the company to telegraph to authorities that the exchange was focused on compliance.—
Andrew Nusca,
Fortune,
24 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Analysts and financial experts have observed this growing trend among younger clients navigating the complexities of financial planning.—
Mark Davis,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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Advertisement Several experts highlighted the importance of not blindly relying on AI outputs.—
Tharin Pillay,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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“Dilettantes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dilettantes. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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