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In 1957, Greenspan burnished his reputation as an analytical whiz when he warned the chief executive of a large steel company that inventories were oversaturated and a recession was likely.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

With his 6-foot frame, blue eyes, and head of thick blond hair with not a strand out of place, he could be a hedge-fund whiz, or a boutique fitness instructor, or a visiting European aristocrat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026

The first-generation college student is among a cohort of AI whiz kids who are dropping out of college—and getting their investors to pay their bills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 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

Archie performed some quick calculations although he wasn’t a whiz at math.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

Traders like Perkins are known for being math whizzes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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

A nurse whizzes past, clutching a chart and looking at her shoes.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

Kids on wheelie bikes whizzed by the throngs of news cameras on Monday - hoping to show off their skills on the evening news or in some influencer's video.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 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

Their mission was clear the instant those giant buses whizzed past adoring thousands on downtown streets and emptied a group of tearful hugging players into a roaring Dodger Stadium for their first-ever November celebration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 23, 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 fifth shot whizzed by me, then thumped into a tree di-rect behind the cap’n.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

A bizarre pursuit unfolded along the residential streets of Oceanside this week as a helicopter and half a dozen sheriff’s patrol cars chased a teen whizzing away from them on an electric dirt bike.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

Cars were whizzing by, so I had to stop every few feet.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

But there is a long way to go before flying cars are whizzing through the air every day.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 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

It took me a moment to realize it was whizzing awfully close to my head.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals