tinkerers

plural of tinkerer
as in amateurs
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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Recent Examples of tinkerers At $3,499, it is clearly not priced for small-scale tinkerers. Dave Altavilla, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025 The New Yorker was inventing its voice, and Flanner was in the clique of tinkerers. Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2025
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Noun
  • Moreover, most of the 600 contestants are amateurs, some of whom only predict a handful of questions in the tournament, leaving them with a low score.
    Nikita Ostrovsky, Time, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Even if reaching the fairway on the par-5 13th from the tee, amateurs still face 390 yards to the green for the second shot.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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  • Below the video, fellow urbex hobbyists recounted their arrests there.
    Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The company makes blueprints, software, control systems, and even hardware bills of materials available, encouraging universities, laboratories, and hobbyists to use the robot as a testbed for new ideas.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025

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“Tinkerers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tinkerers. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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