How to Use prodigy in a Sentence
prodigy
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For so long, McLaughlin has been viewed in the world of track and field as a prodigy.
— Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2021 -
At the time, Sondheim, a prodigy in his mid-20s, was still a Broadway novice.
— Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2021 -
The boy had uncanny balance and a prodigy’s feel for the wind.
— William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022 -
Programs billed her as one of the greatest child prodigies since Mozart.
— Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024 -
Tutberidze shook her head and, at one point, stared at the ceiling as her prodigy flailed on the ice.
— New York Times, 17 Feb. 2022 -
No, the 39-year-old prodigy clearly is not scared, and give him credit for that.
— Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022 -
That’s merely a record, something that can be usurped in 30 or 40 years by the next prodigy that comes along.
— Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023 -
Instead, the teenage prodigy fell apart in the short program and stood in 17th after night one.
— Mark Osborne, ABC News, 3 Feb. 2022 -
Luk Kop didn’t seem to have the makings of a musical prodigy.
— Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023 -
Moore was a child prodigy from Hawaii who grew up to be the youngest world champion surfer and a four-time world champ.
— CBS News, 27 July 2021 -
The man Charles de Vilmorin is a creative prodigy who is already among the world's greats.
— Alexandre Marain, Vogue, 19 Jan. 2022 -
Both books tell the story of a child prodigy who learned to take a licking as part of the family act.
— Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022 -
The film was scripted by Scott Frank and centered on a seven-year-old child prodigy.
— Zack Sharf, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024 -
The video has garnered over 2 million views on TikTok, and tons of support for the prodigy.
— Malaika Jabali, Essence, 10 Nov. 2021 -
At that age, everybody writes about you as like a prodigy.
— Suzy Expositostaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 7 Apr. 2022 -
Gi-hun bonds with the old man, grows nostalgic over the ephemera of childhood, and praises Sang-woo as the town prodigy.
— Quinci Legardye, Vulture, 2 Oct. 2021 -
There was talk of finding the child prodigy a new instrument.
— Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023 -
Yet the prodigy grew up in a San Diego house where listening to rock and roll was forbidden.
— Alan Paul, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022 -
Such has been the life of Alyssa Thompson, the 18-year-old soccer prodigy from Harvard-Westlake.
— Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023 -
The child prodigy Philippa Duke Schuyler reads Plutarch on train trips, eats steaks raw, and writes poems in honor of her dolls.
— Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022 -
Mark Zuckerberg was a software prodigy while in high school.
— Dileep Rao, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021 -
Connolly, a teen prodigy from San Diego, had the most dominant run to a Grand Slam.
— New York Times, 30 Aug. 2021 -
The plot concerns a rabbinic prodigy named Nahum, who falls in love with his father-in-law’s young wife and gets her pregnant.
— Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023 -
And a 10-year-old Venus Williams posed for a photo heralding her arrival as a tennis prodigy to watch.
— John Russell, Peoplemag, 1 Aug. 2024 -
The kid genius enjoyed many ups and downs as a child prodigy in '80s and '90s East Texas, but had the support of his family through it all.
— Shania Russell, EW.com, 6 May 2024 -
This prodigy, who has the weight of a nation on his shoulders, exudes joy and character for one so novice.
— Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Even as a child prodigy, Schumann was placed in the top tier of her contemporaries, both male and female.
— Hartford Courant, 9 June 2022 -
Born in 1835, Saint-Saëns quickly proved himself a prodigy of Mozartean genius.
— Barrymore Laurence Scherer, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021 -
Challengers follows Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court.
— Denise Petski, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2024 -
Chiles had been a prodigy in the elite gymnastics world for years, performing acrobatic skills most Olympians found impossible.
— Kaetlyn Liddy, NBC News, 9 Aug. 2024
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