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
And Angel Lin’s assured and anchoring performance toes a delicate line, presenting Maya as neither a babe in the woods nor a wunderkind fully prepared for the magnitude of her mission.
From New York Times
As the broader crypto market surged, Mr. Bankman-Fried cultivated a public persona as a wunderkind entrepreneur who intended to donate all his wealth to charity.
From New York Times
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