boy wonder

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He appears as something of a historical figure a handful of pages earlier — described as one of the “American boy wonders who’d programmed and designed Commander Keen and Doom.”

From Washington Post

Hu Chunhua is known as a boy wonder who ranked first in China’s national university entrance examinations and became the youngest person to hold several official posts.

From Seattle Times

From boy wonder to the so-called Housewives' Choice, when women who supposedly knew nothing about racing would have a flutter on Lester in big races.

From BBC

“I kind of got pigeonholed into the category of the dancing bear, the boy wonder,” says Doner, who today works as a national security researcher.

From Washington Post

He was the boy wonder who could do no wrong.

From Los Angeles Times