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whiz kid
1noun
- a youthful and exceptionally intelligent, successful, or influential person in a given field:
the whiz kid of network programming.
whiz-kid
2[ hwiz-kid, wiz- ]
adjective
- of, relating to, or being a whiz kid:
a whiz-kid sales manager.
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Example Sentences
The honchos call in a whiz-kid named George Weiss, who penned tunes for the likes of Elvis.
If you were HP CEO Meg Whitman, how would you feel about the whiz-kid consultants?
On Tuesday, whiz-kid election predictor Nate Silver wrote, “This year, all clichés about Ohio are true.”
Jindal's extraordinary energy in those days helped cement an impression of him as something more than a whiz-kid wonk.
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