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[hwiz, wiz] / ʰwɪz, wɪz /




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"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

A giant atrium was planned inside the structure where hologram images of spaceships and floating boulders whiz by visitors.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 6, 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

Vincent was a first-generation Indian immigrant and dot-com whiz kid.

From Slate Jan. 13, 2026

Maybe you were a charcoal drawing on the wall done by an art whiz.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

The competition poses a challenge for quant firms, which have sought to sweep up the next generation of math whizzes to retain the trading edge that has made them a force in finance.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 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

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

Their mission was clear the instant those giant buses whizzed past adoring thousands on downtown streets and emptied a group of tearful hugging players into a roaring Dodger Stadium for their first-ever November celebration.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 23, 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

Thousands of trainees whizzed past, their mantles a riot of colors: more Levels Ones in white, Level Twos in bright orange, Level Threes in sapphire blue, and Level Fours in plum purple.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

But there is a long way to go before flying cars are whizzing through the air every day.

From Barron's Nov. 30, 2025

Mrs. Reilly snatched the whizzing lute string from Ignatius.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole




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