whiz kid

noun

variants or less commonly whizz kid

: a person who is unusually intelligent, clever, or successful especially at an early age

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web This Texas whiz kid, Rahul Nagvekar, beat a prodigy from Wisconsin, Vansh Jain. —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2012 Season 8: Richard Blais Season 8 of Top Chef was the first all-stars edition, bringing together seven seasons' worth of fan favorites and runners-up who all fell to whiz kid Richard Blais. —

Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023 Hacking went Hollywood in the 1983 movie WarGames, about a whiz kid who breaks into a Defense Department computer and, at one point, hijacks a pay phone by hot-wiring it with a soda can pull-ring. —

Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 19 May 2010 On the song, six-string whiz kid Nuno Bettencourt restrained himself with simpler guitar riffs (but still shredded ecstatically on the solo), while frontman Gary Cherone adopted a Scott Weiland–esque howl to match his freshly shorn haircut. —

Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 Sep. 2021 Texas whiz kid beats teens in 2012 National Geographic Bee. —

Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2012 San Francisco whiz kid coach Kyle Shanahan did a deep dive on Brady. —

Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022 The whiz kid at the center of the FTX collapse has been a big-time Democratic donor. —

John Fund, National Review, 21 Nov. 2022 Bankman-Fried is the wild-haired 30-year-old Silicon Valley whiz kid seen as a savior by the financial news establishment, a generous bundler for the Democrats and a deep-pocketed partner to celebrities like Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen. —

Matt Donnelly, Variety, 15 Nov. 2022 See More

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