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Recent Examples of wiz Visual art is not new to Martin, a wiz at one-liners who incorporates drawings in his stand-up. Karla Marie Sanford, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025 Fun fact from Mariners PR wiz Alex Mayer: the team has actually had a four-homer game on the road, by Mike Cameron in Chicago in 2002, since its last three-homer game at home. Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025 In the snippet, which is taken from Ramsey’s popular show, the money wiz shakes his head and buries it in his hands. Elizabeth Crisp, The Hill, 21 Mar. 2025 At the time, Barnett was a rising star in the speakers’ circuit because of her son Jacob, a physics wiz with autism who made headlines for excelling at school when experts doubted his abilities. Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 18 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for wiz
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Noun
  • The apple-munching Euphoria actor slipped into Tilda Swinton’s plush period dress from the ravishing 1992 drama, joined by Jeff Goldblum, Wicked’s wizard himself, in sparkly Gucci.
    Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Three years after their wonderfully creepy first feature film Coraline, the stop-motion wizards at Laika released this horror comedy about an 11-year-old boy who can communicate with the dead.
    Chris Snellgrove, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Freewheelin’ is in many ways his real breakthrough as a songwriting genius.
    Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 27 Oct. 2025
  • But that was hardly the end of our fastidious, crime-solving genius.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Chris Sempeles gets his cheese whiz from back east and his hoagie rolls from a local bakery owned by a Pennsylvania native.
    Matthew Geiger, Denver Post, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Carl released his arrow and watched it whiz like a missile.
    Devon O’Neil, Outside, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Wiz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiz. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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