wunderkind
Example Sentences
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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.
Holmes was once a wunderkind of Silicon Valley — the young, female founder of a promising start-up that pledged to make health care more affordable and less painful for the masses.
From Washington Post
After his extradition in December from the Bahamas, where FTX was based, the former billionaire wunderkind was released on $250 million bond to home detention at his parents' Palo Alto, California home.
From Reuters
Clark came to Iowa as a wunderkind with a dream.
From Washington Post
He inspired the wunderkind Latin American conductor played by Gael García Bernal on the Amazon series “Mozart in the Jungle” and made a cameo appearance on the show.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.