Thankfully, the Coleman kids reached a Burger King, and Wahlberg and his amateur biker gang rode off. Sharp did lots of school plays, which led to a role in amateur operetta, then professional pantomime. Today, though, professional and amateur historians can build counter-narratives that are hard to dismantle. Chicago provides crime reporters and amateur scanner-chasers with more grit and brutality than they can handle combined. That frequency is within the range used by amateur radio operators, so anyone can listen in.

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Use amateur in a sentence. An example of an amateur is someone who enjoys and studies astronomy as a hobby but not as a professional. Antonym: professional.