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Definitions for tyro
- a beginner in learning anything; novice.
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Citations for tyro
... that willingness to subject legends to the same hazing as any eager tyro fresh from a writing program is what gives the criticism of our age its vulgarity but also its vitality.
What characterized them was the clumsiness of too great strength--the clumsiness which the tyro betrays when he crushes butterflies with battering rams and hammers out vignettes with a warclub.
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