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  • n  someone new to a field or activity

  • His musician father died when the boy was nine, and to support his family this precocious child left home to become a touring tyro musician with tabla maestro Zakir Hussain.
  • The Chicago Tribune's reviewer sniped at the movie and its tyro scripter: "Boredom aplenty is provided by a screenplay which, for some reason, has been turned over to a .
  • Yet: 1) Rockefeller is a tyro at the game, 2) his background scarcely schooled him for hula hooping and beanie balancing.
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  • Martin van Jaarsveld in Independent
    It was pretty heart breaking, getting that close especially when we were trying to defend our trophysaid van Jaarsveld. "We just couldn't get our noses in front but in professional sport, that sometimes happens. Tyro Henderson (the South...
  • Lou Reed in MSNBC
    Robert Quine was a magnificent guitar player - an original and innovative tyro of the vintage beast,Reed said in a statement released to Billboard.com.

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