wunderkind

It wasn't long before Mourinho was calling his former wunderkind "one of the best midfielders in Europe".

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

“Hell’s Kitchen,” a New York story of a wunderkind discovering her gift, helped me get over my allergy to the jukebox genre.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026

At 14, the wunderkind performed for then-First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House as part of a student delegation of musicians from the museum.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

In one, Grimes offered to help Musk get $5 billion in funding from then-cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, whom he described as an “Ultra genius and doer builder like your formula.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 10, 2026

Peter Diamond was the latest up-and-coming Brooklyn wunderkind literary sensation.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner

Bogdanovich made “What’s Up, Doc?” after “The Last Picture Show,” the ecstatically received film that established his reputation as one of New Hollywood’s wunderkinder.

From New York Times ● May 14, 2020

Like many wunderkinder, Korngold had a bumpy transition to adulthood.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 12, 2019

Forty years later those wunderkinder are now midcareer and have accomplished even more than expected, according to a recent follow-up survey.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 29, 2015

Scott Duncan is America’s youngest billionaire to have inherited his wealth — setting him apart from the tech wunderkinder on the Forbes 400.

From Forbes ● Sep. 29, 2014

He introduced Ernest Lawrence to his readers as the leader of a “scouting party” of Berkeley wunderkinder, most of them “still in their early thirties.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The Leitersdorf brothers, who come from a prominent Israeli family that includes real-estate developers, venture capitalists and startup founders, are wunderkinds of the country’s tech industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026

For the past year, Jordan Spieth and Rickie Fowler, wunderkinds from the same generation who became close friends, have been living with the good and the bad of their precociousness.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2021

There were always wunderkinds and rising stars and the occasional military leader but running for office meant getting inside the system and working your way up.

From Fox News ● Jun. 29, 2020

For one, both are wunderkinds of a sort.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

“The Class” instead homes in exclusively on its impressive and often astounding group of young science wunderkinds and takes readers through a year in their fast-paced, award-winning lives.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 30, 2018