It's more like a dabbling.

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But after a decade of dabbling in various management jobs, including with a traveling carnival company, Rosen has surfaced as a Ticketmaster competitor.

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Impact investing must become more than just a few investors dabbling in new ways to fund charismatic entrepreneurs.

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If you are an engineer, try dabbling in a little Flash Pro development sometime and see how it changes your view of how UIs can be developed.

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Does all this dabbling make me a trustifarian dilettante?

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Despite his dabbling in advertising, Steichen was more than a glorified press agent.

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But anyone who has spent a lot of time dating online, and not just dabbling, has his or her share of horror stories, too.

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AmeriCredit hopes to augment its growth by paying for referrals from Chase Manhattan, a big lender to good-credit buyers, and by dabbling in home equity loans.

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He began dabbling in entertainment three years after leaving Gateway, armed only with a credit from a college film class.

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Waste Management is even dabbling in the front end of waste production: In May it invested in a company that is developing a technology that aims to reduce the amount of plastic needed to make packaging, appliances and electronics.

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Amazon has been dabbling in this space for years with its Gold Box offering and started to ramp it up a bit this year.

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