wunderkind
Example Sentences
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He accomplished very good things in Oxford and he’s turned his career in a steadier direction after a peripatetic start as a football wunderkind.
Even the president's onetime wunderkind former prime minister Gabriel Attal is keeping his distance.
From BBC
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
Once an up-and-coming baseball wunderkind, Hank is now content watching his beloved San Francisco Giants play from across the country while he makes a modest name for himself among the bar patrons.
From Salon
At 36, she has completed the transition from wunderkind to elder stateswoman.
From Los Angeles Times
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