wunderkind
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Once seen as a U.S. wunderkind for his pedigree and his obvious talent, his career between the two World Cups had seemingly stalled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
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
But by the festival’s end, the wunderkind had excitingly found his way with the orchestra.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
Peter Diamond was the latest up-and-coming Brooklyn wunderkind literary sensation.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Always wunderkinder of virtuosity, Cunningham’s dancers had to be as intellectually brainy as they were physically smart.
From New York Times ● Sep. 1, 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
Lots of the tech wunderkinder honed their skills during their service in army units whose products will never be cleared for publication.
From Slate ● Jan. 2, 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
The industry is full of charismatic wunderkinds, opportunistic fraudsters and self-proclaimed investment advisors promoting financial products with little to no transparency.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2022
“I hope everybody gives Coco plenty of time,” said Tracy Austin, one of tennis’s most remarkable wunderkinds, who reached No. 1 and won two U.S.
From New York Times ● Aug. 31, 2020
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
It was a time when financial wunderkinds figured out how to use massive amounts of debt to go on buying sprees, leaving a path of devastation.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 23, 2019
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