whiz
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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
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
Another competitor was a tech whiz who packed his plywood trimaran with electronic gizmos.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 5, 2025
The Belle apartments whirr with activity as palace guards swarm the halls, and post-balloons whiz in and out.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
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
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
"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
Ray whizzes the famous kicks right past my nose, so close it tickles.
From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri
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
Kids on wheelie bikes whizzed by the throngs of news cameras on Monday - hoping to show off their skills on the evening news or in some influencer's video.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Toddlers whizzed by on scooters as parents chatted about the struggles of parenting during a rare L.A. storm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 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
He sprinted out of the room, leaving Harry and Seamus alone together, an uncomfortable moment made no easier when a birddropping landed on Seamus’s head as one of Hermione’s canaries whizzed over them.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Cars were whizzing by, so I had to stop every few feet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 25, 2026
Magnets cause these whizzing electrons to lose some energy in the form of X-rays, and these are directed off from the ring in beamlines so that they may be used to analyse materials, for example.
From BBC ● Dec. 11, 2025
But there is a long way to go before flying cars are whizzing through the air every day.
From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025
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
The sound of other vehicles whizzing by fills the cab, and G’ma peers over at Scoob.
From "Clean Getaway" by Nic Stone
