whiz
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But there is one phenomenon that the game’s Ivy League whiz kids have proven completely incapable of figuring out: how the Milwaukee Brewers are always so good.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the Moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge technology and lessons learned from the Apollo program 50 years ago.
From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026
The ad, titled “Good Will Dunkin’,” featured Affleck as the original brainy Boston math whiz, who happens to work at Dunkin’ and arranges a display of Munchkins in a Fibonacci sequence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
Vincent was a first-generation Indian immigrant and dot-com whiz kid.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2026
Maybe you were a charcoal drawing on the wall done by an art whiz.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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Leibowitz, who died May 6 at age 89, was a forerunner of the so-called quants, math whizzes who would become major factors in financial markets two decades later.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Across two hours, Buckley’s Bride shoots, kicks, contorts, dances, scrapes, whizzes, licks and screams, all the while coming no closer to her true self than she was at the start of the film.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
That is part of the lifeblood of the state’s culture, cuisine, commerce and sense of possibility, and those students are now our teachers, nurses, physicians, engineers, entrepreneurs and tech whizzes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025
Throngs of people precariously stand on the medians as high-speed traffic whizzes by.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2025
The streets of New Orleans are quiet and lined with rows of neat houses, manicured lawns, and flowered gardens; it all whizzes past as the night shifts to dawn.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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Svetnoy has said the bullet whizzed past his head and “narrowly missed him,” according to the gaffer’s suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026
We made it to the top, whizzed down the other side, passed the test—and passed it again and again, all the way across the country, through the agonizingly steep hills of western Maine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025
That same year, feeling restless, he whizzed off to Washington to work for Mr. Kissinger in the State Department.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024
The forehand whizzed back and forth, the serve cranked up, the movement looked better - and somehow, he came out on top.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2024
Along I-20, a superhighway that divides Atlanta into north and south, cars whizzed past at frightening speeds.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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Crowds winded through greenways and walking trails, processing through thin paths in single-file lines and dodging annoyed runners and whizzing bikers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026
To chase them down, the Large Hadron Collider sends particles whizzing around an underground ring at phenomenal speeds until they smash into each other.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
The Welshman said he was "exhausted, but I have a really strong memory of being on the back of the motorbike whizzing through central London, going past Rada", his old acting school.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2025
Who knew that by eating at the Bangkok night markets and whizzing through traffic on the back of scooters on this trip I was already living in the future?
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025
She could feel a buzzing inside her, like a gear spring wound too tight and whizzing out of control.
From "The Girl Who Drank the Moon" by Kelly Barnhill
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