tinkerer

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
  • The only image from life to capture Austen’s face is this sketch made by her sister Cassandra, an averagely talented amateur.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 4 Aug. 2025
  • The best professional investors of all time get it right maybe 55% of the time, so why wouldn’t amateurs shoot for low-probability/high-payout bets?
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 July 2025
Noun
  • In layman’s terms: Make your business too real to ignore.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 25 July 2025
  • In layman’s terms, your portion of the Oklo pie has just become a bit smaller.
    Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • David Byrne came from Baltimore by way of Scotland, a socially awkward dabbler in conceptualist experiments with photography and a veteran of various mediocre cover bands.
    Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2025
  • Where Sun is a dabbler, Geffen is an established connoisseur.
    Rachel Corbett, Vulture, 16 Apr. 2025
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“Tinkerer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinkerer. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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