avocational
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- avocationalist noun
- avocationally adverb
Example Sentences
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It was discovered by avocational fossil collector Lloyd Gunther and donated to the Kansas University Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum in 1981.
From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026
In 2008, Mr. Brandston remembered a conversation with Mr. McCandless during which he contrasted his years of freewheeling, largely avocational theatrical work with the more hidebound bureaucracy surrounding professional architectural and engineering design.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2023
There really isn’t anywhere else in the country that is structured like we are in terms of hosting so many avocational community organizations and ensembles alongside major international and national figures.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 20, 2022
For 10 years after graduation he invested in real estate and studied transcendental meditation, among other avocational pursuits.
From Slate • Jan. 17, 2017
The women clutched each other, Miss Anspacher praying silently and fervently to Juno, Lakshmi, Freya, Isis and a host of other esoteric female deities she had picked up in the course of her avocational researches.
From Collector's Item by Smith, Evelyn E.
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