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Technically, the French boy wonder Jacques Henri Lartigue, who took his first picture at the age of seven, beat him by a couple of years.
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Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Listen to this article SAN ANTONIO — Florida coach Todd Golden is college basketball’s boy wonder.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
The premise of Hell of a Summer centers around Jason Hochberg (Hechinger), a 24-year-old who used to be a sort of boy wonder but is getting too old to be a camp counselor at Camp Pineway.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The media was eager to anoint him as a new boy wonder who was pulling folk music into the future via hip-hop and indie rock, or a new Bob Dylan who was different from all the new Dylans who had come before.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 June 2024
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Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2025
Listen to this article SAN ANTONIO — Florida coach Todd Golden is college basketball’s boy wonder.
—Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2025
The premise of Hell of a Summer centers around Jason Hochberg (Hechinger), a 24-year-old who used to be a sort of boy wonder but is getting too old to be a camp counselor at Camp Pineway.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 22 Jan. 2025
The media was eager to anoint him as a new boy wonder who was pulling folk music into the future via hip-hop and indie rock, or a new Bob Dylan who was different from all the new Dylans who had come before.
—Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 June 2024
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“Boy wonder.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boy%20wonder. Accessed 14 Nov. 2025.
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