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someone new to a field or activity

grown far beyond the shaky tyro she seemed just a season ago

comes off as too much the tyro to be a President
Looking back, I am confident that the only one there who guessed I was a tyro at bar-drinking was Johnny Heinhold.
Jack London -- John Barleycorn
Then Gladys, the new pantry maid, began to sing: Yo tiro la cuchara, Yo tiw el tenedor Yo tiro to'lo'plato' Yme voypa' Nueva Yof.
Julia Alvarez -- How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
He went on, giving slow, full value to each word: "We called you an incompetent fool, a tyro, a charlatan, a swindler, an egomaniac..."
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
He did a job that would have made a Comanche brave look like a tyro with a scalping knife.
Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
Rhambos and Tyros and Nornus and Iral and many more.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
The veteran Marine in the group, helping the tyro.
James Bradley -- Flags of Our Fathers
We're on Granny Thela's cattle post outside Tiro.
Allan Stratton -- Chandra's Wars
A tiro nin, Fanuilos!
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Two Towers
Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
Pipes seem very odd when you first hear them, and a tyro practicing can set your teeth on edge — it sounds and looks as if he had a cat under his arm, its tail in his mouth, and biting it.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight so remarkable to a tyro in the far ocean fisheries—a whaler at sea, and long absent from home.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
She may rely too long on Athena's gifts- talent in handicraft and a clever mind; so cunning-history cannot show the like among the ringleted ladies of Akhaia, Mykene with her coronet, Alkmene, Tyro.
Homer -- The Odyssey
Jopp was far less of a tyro; he lifted one of the seals with his penknife, peeped in at the end thus opened, saw that the bundle consisted of letters; and, having satisfied himself thus far, sealed up the end again by simply softening the wax with the candle, and went off with the parcel as requested.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
"There's a young man got off the truck from Tiro," she says, eyebrows arching off her forehead.
Allan Stratton -- Chandra's Wars
"They're for Granny and everybody up in Tiro," Soly volunteers.
Allan Stratton -- Chandra's Wars
I remember back to before Tiro, way back to the night she showed up at our door, raped, her head swollen, the cuts and stitching fresh with pain.
Allan Stratton -- Chandra's Wars
We submit to arrest, Captain Tyros.
Victoria Aveyard -- Red Queen
The sun's hot by the time we near Tiro.
Allan Stratton -- Chandra's Wars

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