wunderkind
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In one, Grimes offered to help Musk get $5 billion in funding from then-cryptocurrency wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried, whom he described as an “Ultra genius and doer builder like your formula.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 10, 2026
Also, a wunderkind dobro player named Jerry Douglas.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 28, 2026
It was the Olympic Stadium, not Camp Nou, that witnessed the emergence of the club’s newest wunderkind, Yamal.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 12, 2025
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 • Aug. 29, 2025
An escape hatch was provided by his brother-in-law Landon Thorne, a Wall Street wunderkind who proposed that they form an investment banking partnership.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
