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Discover LudwigThe phrase "relative novice" is correct and can be used in written English.
It usually refers to someone who is inexperienced compared to others in that same field. For example, "He may be a relative novice compared to the rest of the team, but he always has fresh and innovative ideas."
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He is a rare talent, and a relative novice still.
Christopher Wheeldon, still a relative novice in 1997, now looked like a young master.
The philosophy postgraduate and former Rothschild banker is a relative novice in politics.
By comparison, Wade, just over four years his junior, is still a relative novice.
Each ticket now has one experienced candidate and one relative novice with minority or gender appeal.
There is an argument for allowing Hales, still a relative novice in this format, another chance.
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Grant and Morgan are replaced by relative novices in Rob Mitchell and Chris Tomlinson.
New ventures undertaken by relative novices are tense by design, and, most of the time, new ventures undertaken by relative novices are meant to die.
This garden included beetroot grown by us relative novices, yet went on to win a gold medal at the show.
Although some of the choreographers are relative novices, all danced with Dance Theater of Harlem and have remained associated with the artistic staff of the company or its school.
Although they are relative novices in the political arena, technology concerns are using big business and organized labor as models for how to press undecided members of Congress on the China bill.
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