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It instantly made the math whiz in tortoiseshell glasses—one of hundreds just like him in Silicon Valley’s AI companies—a face of AI safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

"It's not suddenly going to whiz past and you'll miss it. It's worth waiting around just in case the clouds move on."

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

But there is one phenomenon that the game’s Ivy League whiz kids have proven completely incapable of figuring out: how the Milwaukee Brewers are always so good.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

As four astronauts whiz toward a flyby of the Moon, looking out for them are mission control experts using cutting-edge technology and lessons learned from the Apollo program 50 years ago.

From Barron's ● Apr. 4, 2026

Ralph started to whiz around in a figure eight when his tires slipped and the motorcycle tipped; He lost control and landed in icy, dirty water.

From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary

More than 60,000 Wall Street Journal readers tested their knowledge against high-school personal-finance whizzes this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

That is part of the lifeblood of the state’s culture, cuisine, commerce and sense of possibility, and those students are now our teachers, nurses, physicians, engineers, entrepreneurs and tech whizzes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 27, 2025

Once in Kerala, the film whizzes through a checklist of things a layperson might associate with the tourist-favourite state - its famous backwaters, the ubiquitous coconut trees, toddy, elephants, and Onam, its most popular festival.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2025

The actual act of mining involves computer whizzes trying to solve a numerical puzzle; the first miner to solve it gets the newly created Bitcoin.

From Slate ● Mar. 28, 2025

The girls are stopped at a red light as more traffic whizzes by.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

Those good vibes were on display when Son’s shot whizzed between two defenders and the outstretched arms of Galaxy goalkeeper Novak Micovic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026

But he had not accounted for those Sunderland-supporting runners who were not so thrilled to see him as they whizzed past.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2025

We made it to the top, whizzed down the other side, passed the test—and passed it again and again, all the way across the country, through the agonizingly steep hills of western Maine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2025

There, people whizzed by while holding the horn.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2024

Mabel, riding on the handrail, whizzed by and blocked her progress on the first landing.

From "In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson" by Bette Bao Lord

It was very likely caused by the whiplash he’s endured by tracking all of those line drives whizzing past his ear.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Finding more of them could help scientists "understand how galaxies form and how many black holes are whizzing around," Stein said.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 6, 2026

Ms. Gionfriddo writes tartly funny dialogue that stings and surprises, with tangy quips and savage retorts whizzing through the air, giving a buoyancy even to scenes that occasionally stretch past their necessary length.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Grayce is a happy three-year-old, who loves going to nursery, playing music and whizzing about in her wheelchair - things her parents weren't always sure she would achieve.

From BBC ● Mar. 22, 2026

Harry stood aside as Ron came whizzing out of the pipe, too.

From "Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets" by J. K. Rowling