whiz
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It takes a little work, but I did it, and I’m no technology whiz.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Every MLB front office is populated by Ivy League whiz kids, data wonks and math geniuses, who are trying to find an edge with numbers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
“Gee whiz, will you stop rubbing it in?”
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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
Engineering teams often remain in Europe, where salaries are lower and universities produce a steady stream of computer whizzes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2025
Throngs of people precariously stand on the medians as high-speed traffic whizzes by.
From BBC ● Apr. 20, 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
In California, where all sixteen finalists were library whizzes, Sarah Trager Logan, the librarian in charge, knew teamwork would be crucial for victory inside the Lemoncello Library.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
Someone got a haircut as cars whizzed past.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
On a sunny morning in September, a dead doe lay on the side of a small road just off 395, as cars whizzed by on the artery that connects communities along the Eastern Sierra.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 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
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
The occasional car whizzed by, and Dad stuck out his thumb, but none of them stopped.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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
Click went the machine, and the whizzer stopped whizzing.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
