wonder child
Example Sentences
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Mr. Chandler’s story is also part of a certain New York myth: that of the fallen wonder child.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
Even the euphemisms were bland, and their conundrum was apparent: Golf’s bright young wonder child waited in the wings, literally overlooking the green, and the man about to beat him was hopelessly boring.
From Golf Digest ● Oct. 16, 2013
His father, a singing teacher, later moved Lorin to an appropriate place for a wonder child, Los Angeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
The rest of Welles's story is all Mercury Theatre, but the Mercury Theatre was a lot of things before it became Broadway's wonder child.
From Time Magazine Archive
The result was that when a concert was to be given at the neighboring Oldenburg, Adam was requested to allow his wonder child to play.
From The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians by Harriette Brower
