wizzes

noun

plural of wiz
as in wizards
a very smart person he must be some kind of wiz to have graduated college at age 19

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  1. wizards
  2. geniuses
  3. brains
Noun
  • After climbing the Azkaban Escape Tower to the top, repel-style, young wizards-in-training, Clark and Emily Friscia, were ready to go home.
    — Greg Harutunian, Chicago Tribune, 29 June 2026
  • And two other high-flying AI wizards — Anthropic and OpenAI — are working on their own mega offerings.
    — Evan Clark, Footwear News, 29 June 2026
Definition of wizards
Noun
  • The two budding geniuses would sit in Charles’ apartment for hours, talking music theory and analyzing records, though Jones’s curiosity occasionally exhausted Charles.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026
  • You have been fired or laid off, and your replacement immediately takes the company to unprecedented heights while receiving the universal praise reserved for the geniuses of your craft.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 17 June 2026
Definition of geniuses
Noun
  • The researchers’ initial hypothesis was that the squids’ brains were somehow denied energy during development, which limited growth, but that wasn’t the only possible answer.
    — Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 July 2026
  • Could the generations growing up with their brains hooked to endless video feeds be developing some kind of novel, as-yet-undetectable cognitive brilliance?
    — Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
Definition of brains
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“Wizzes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wizzes. Accessed 10 Jul. 2026.

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