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[hwiz, wiz] / ʰwɪz, wɪz /




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It’s reassuring that you don’t necessarily need to be an AI whiz to up your earnings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

"It's not suddenly going to whiz past and you'll miss it. It's worth waiting around just in case the clouds move on."

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Stearns was the industry’s most coveted executive, a Manhattan-born, Harvard-educated whiz kid who had improbably transformed the small-market Milwaukee Brewers into a powerhouse despite a microscopic budget.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

Those on bicycles whiz by so fast I can’t even tell who’s on the bike.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Traders like Perkins are known for being math whizzes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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 actual act of mining involves computer whizzes trying to solve a numerical puzzle; the first miner to solve it gets the newly created Bitcoin.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

Malcolm is gamely hanging in there, though he clearly hates to stand at home plate as the ball whizzes toward him.

From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti

Toddlers whizzed by on scooters as parents chatted about the struggles of parenting during a rare L.A. storm.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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

One early viral video showed him falling off a picnic chair in excitement as a train whizzed past.

From BBC ● May 23, 2024

Then a bee whizzed past Enoch’s nose and buried its stinger in the haunches of the woman sitting astride him, and she squealed and leapt up.

From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs

Already a concrete bridge stretches across 10 lanes of whizzing traffic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026

Finding more of them could help scientists "understand how galaxies form and how many black holes are whizzing around," Stein said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026

Magnets cause these whizzing electrons to lose some energy in the form of X-rays, and these are directed off from the ring in beamlines so that they may be used to analyse materials, for example.

From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025

Mrs. Reilly snatched the whizzing lute string from Ignatius.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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