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
He is something of a wunderkind, having had his first solo New York show at Sargent’s Daughters gallery in 2015 before graduating from Columbia’s M.F.A. program.
From New York Times
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
