wunderkind

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Jordan Stolz is Team USA’s breakout star at these Olympics—the speedskating Wisconsin wunderkind who’s already won two gold medals and is hunting for more.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

He was, himself, a wunderkind political reporter, first for the New Republic and then during a decade at the New Yorker.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 6, 2025

Even the president's onetime wunderkind former prime minister Gabriel Attal is keeping his distance.

From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025

When he made his 1975 blockbuster “Jaws,” Steven Spielberg was just 26 — a wunderkind director taking on a killer-shark thriller that nearly sank his budding career before launching him into Hollywood history.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2025

Peter Diamond was the latest up-and-coming Brooklyn wunderkind literary sensation.

From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner