amateur
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A 2026 study of roughly 300 male amateur players found temporary increases in brain-damage markers after heading, with stronger effects after frequent and high-impact headers.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 19, 2026
Hockney's new passion was landscapes: the traditional pastime of the weekend amateur.
From BBC • Jun. 12, 2026
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck seemed to stand even less of a chance when he founded the company in 2006, as an amateur rocketeer with no college degree and no funding.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
And he only had four years of Nippon Professional Baseball experience before deciding to leave Japan, posting early and signing as an international amateur free agent last year, as Shohei Ohtani did in 2017.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 5, 2026
Philbert was getting a reputation as one of the better amateur fighters in this part of the state; everyone really expected that he was going to become a professional.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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