whizzes

Example Sentences

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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

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

I'm not sure if it's more alarming that he said it or that the Times and the allegedly sophisticated financial whizzes in the audience all thought it was charming and reassuring.

From Salon • Oct. 16, 2024

"They were a breed apart. Sometimes they'd turn up at the Palais and they'd be doing the whizzes and the splits and you'd think, wow, what is this?"

From BBC • Sep. 21, 2023

A lightning bolt whizzes past my ear and hits him with a crack.

From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas