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  • noun Plural form of dabbler.

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Examples

  • Dev. conference was really enlightening so I'm glad you're continuing to help educate those of us I believe you called dabblers!

    Open Source CU - Home 2009

  • The strategy needs to focus on under 35yr old 'dabblers' - the casual ICE users who take the drug 2-3 times a month and are not yet addicted.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • "dabblers"-- you know, the lawyers who are either very inexperienced or whose practice isn't at least 80% matrimonial--cause a great deal of the angst and anger.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Terri Weiss 2011

  • This partnership of two 'dabblers' (let the Stock Exchange term pass, for it is the only word which describes them), this partnership of dabblers did not last very long.

    A Man of Business Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Stop working with 'dabblers' like Advertising agencies and PR firms that claim to understand the online world and start trusting expert story-tellers, who completely understand online content marketing.

    Cafe con Leche XML News and Resources 2009

  • They do nothing for her, these dabblers; and what they do not do for the mother, undoes at night, when the child comes home, all that they have done for the child in the day.

    DRINK, TEMPERANCE, AND THRIFT 2010

  • This might encourage higher quality in lawyers who manage to get called, and might discourage the liability-attracting “dabblers”.

    A Rose By Any Other Name?: Law Schools, Legal Education, and Professionalism : Law is Cool 2009

  • And then there are the camp-followers: raving far-right tinfoilers, some of whom believe that oil is continually produced in unlimited quantities at the earth's core, hackers, thieves and know-nothings, oil shills and dabblers.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Almost all the dabblers are down locally and the Northern birds have moved West during migration.

    Think Progress » Fifteen States Have Polluter-Driven Resolutions To Deny Climate Threat 2010

  • Academics, for example, look down on journalist book reviewers as dabblers at best, rather dim bulbs at worst.

    Book Reviewing 2010

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