whiz

A whiz with numbers, he majored in electrical and electronic engineering at what is often called the “MIT of Bangladesh.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 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

Plus: Uploading your blood work to AI, the whiz kids who dropped out of college, a drone’s unlikely inspiration and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 5, 2026

The whiz of the arrow’s flight filled the stone hallway before the faint, dull thud of impact.

From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas

Leibowitz, who died May 6 at age 89, was a forerunner of the so-called quants, math whizzes who would become major factors in financial markets two decades later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026

Across two hours, Buckley’s Bride shoots, kicks, contorts, dances, scrapes, whizzes, licks and screams, all the while coming no closer to her true self than she was at the start of the film.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

"It is an intense period of work and is over far too quickly as the festival whizzes by," he added.

From BBC ● Jun. 27, 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

An acorn whizzes by his ear, but nothing else.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

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

That same year, feeling restless, he whizzed off to Washington to work for Mr. Kissinger in the State Department.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2024

One early viral video showed him falling off a picnic chair in excitement as a train whizzed past.

From BBC ● May 23, 2024

The fifth shot whizzed by me, then thumped into a tree di-rect behind the cap’n.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis

Even during Shabbat, the boardwalk here is full of families basking in the sunshine, electric scooters whizzing past, and bars blasting American hits.

From Slate ● Oct. 28, 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

A slick-looking production line runs inside, with vehicles whizzing about and lots of people wearing high-vis clothing.

From BBC ● Jun. 26, 2026

A bizarre pursuit unfolded along the residential streets of Oceanside this week as a helicopter and half a dozen sheriff’s patrol cars chased a teen whizzing away from them on an electric dirt bike.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026

He tapped each one and they took off, whizzing around like birds preparing to land.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton