wunderkind
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Beneath the wunderkind tag he’s earned, he’s still a young man figuring himself out.
From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026
At 14, the wunderkind performed for then-First Lady Michelle Obama at the White House as part of a student delegation of musicians from the museum.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 1, 2025
Even the president's onetime wunderkind former prime minister Gabriel Attal is keeping his distance.
From BBC • Oct. 6, 2025
Peter Diamond was the latest up-and-coming Brooklyn wunderkind literary sensation.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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