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.
After his extradition in December from the Bahamas, where FTX was based, the former billionaire wunderkind was released on $250 million bond to home detention at his parents' Palo Alto, California home.
From Reuters
Clark came to Iowa as a wunderkind with a dream.
From Washington Post
Shen scored four goals in that game and has emerged as the newest wunderkind in the sport.
From New York Times
It was something novel, too: a 15-year-old figure skating wunderkind, allowed to compete while enmeshed in a doping scandal, exiting in fragments after a devastating final performance.
From Washington Post
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
