whiz
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Less than four months earlier, the carpet-cleaning company run by 21-year-old whiz kid Barry Minkow had a stock-market value of roughly $300 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
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
For the first coaching hire in more than a decade, the Seahawks were convinced that 36-year-old defensive whiz Mike Macdonald could return them to the top of the sport.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 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
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
“The History of Concrete” is about the history of concrete — he’s not kidding about that — but as ever, his expedition whizzes the audience from one unexpected pit stop to another.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 21, 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
The ball whizzes by so fast I don't even have a chance to swing this time.
From "You Bring the Distant Near" by Mitali Perkins
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
Someone got a haircut as cars whizzed past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
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
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
He kissed the stone and then whizzed it toward the middle of the river.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
Cars were whizzing by, so I had to stop every few feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Visit Bogota and it's hard to miss the Rappi bikes with bright orange bags featuring a moustache motif whizzing around the city dropping deliveries off.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
To chase them down, the Large Hadron Collider sends particles whizzing around an underground ring at phenomenal speeds until they smash into each other.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
Who knew that by eating at the Bangkok night markets and whizzing through traffic on the back of scooters on this trip I was already living in the future?
From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2025
A blue shell comes whizzing out of nowhere and hits her kart right as she’s about to cross the finish line.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
