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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
  • Ever since, witches, wizards, and dragons have bored me silly.
    — Griffin Dunne, Vanity Fair, 11 Sep. 2026
  • California’s tech wizards were busy helping lead the world into the Information Age, notably the fledgling commercial promise of the Internet.
    — Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of wizards
Noun
  • In their place are flawed geniuses and idiosyncratic personalities thrust together in the dregs of intelligence services, operating like a dysfunctional family under its disreputable patriarch.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Broadly speaking, these kinds of stories — powered by a stop-them-before-they-kill-again clock, making their antagonists out to be finicky geniuses or horror movie monsters instead of opportunistic mediocrities — strike me as a low form of fiction.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2026
Definition of geniuses
Noun
  • Russell picks up the action from there, charting the unlikely path that took Madden from the NFL sidelines to somehow becoming the brains and brand behind what Madden NFL, what would become one of the bestselling video game franchises of all time.
    — Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 24 Sep. 2026
  • To draw that conclusion, Stanford University researchers examined how the brains of mouse embryos develop.
    — Amanda Erickson, STAT, 22 Sep. 2026
Definition of brains
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“Wizzes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wizzes. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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