wunderkind
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Phil’s influence, many orchestras everywhere now compete for the latest wunderkind hoping to capitalize on the youth movement rather than slowly nurture a rare ability.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
He accomplished very good things in Oxford and he’s turned his career in a steadier direction after a peripatetic start as a football wunderkind.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
Once viewed as a wunderkind from the beginning of baseball’s data revolution—he was the loose basis of Jonah Hill’s character in the “Moneyball” movie—DePodesta abandoned the sport nearly a decade ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025
Even the president's onetime wunderkind former prime minister Gabriel Attal is keeping his distance.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025
An escape hatch was provided by his brother-in-law Landon Thorne, a Wall Street wunderkind who proposed that they form an investment banking partnership.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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