How to Use whiz kid in a Sentence

whiz kid

noun

• The whiz kid at the center of the FTX collapse has been a big-time Democratic donor.
  — John Fund, National Review, 21 Nov. 2022
• Skunk then talked in their clue package about being a whiz kid back in their school days.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• San Francisco whiz kid coach Kyle Shanahan did a deep dive on Brady.
  — Christopher L. Gasper, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Dec. 2022
• The editor said Barney had been a whiz kid reporter in the 1920s – young, aggressive, and smart.
  — Liliana Webb, Detroit Free Press, 28 May 2022
• Beane, a former whiz kid, is now one of baseball’s elder statesmen.
  — Ann Killion, SFChronicle.com, 3 Oct. 2020
• This will yield a cool $2 million for Jimmy and Kim, which Kim plans to plow into a pro bono clinic, staffed with whiz kids lured from the city’s white-shoe firms.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• The soft-spoken Texan was a whiz kid trader at Enron before its fall.
  — Rebecca Robbins, STAT, 26 Mar. 2018
• For Salt & Straw co-creator and ice cream whiz kid Tyler Malek, this lack of smell smelled like an opportunity.
  — oregonlive, 15 July 2022
• That proposal bandied about by a group of science whiz kids in December of 2015 is now an airplane on display on the second floor of the school.
  — Donna Vickroy, Daily Southtown, 14 Apr. 2018
• Woody Harrelson is in top-notch dirtbag form as a hard-luck former bowling champ who takes the Amish whiz kid Randy Quaid on the road as his manager and hustler.
  — Jason Bailey, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• The next 48-hours will indeed be taxing for the 33-year-old hoodie and flip-flop-wearing whiz kid who started Facebook from his Harvard dorm room with a chip on his shoulder.
  — Brooke Bobb, Vogue, 10 Apr. 2018
• Opening for Reeves will be Miami’s own Brandon Goldberg, a 15-year old keyboard whiz kid.
  — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Nov. 2021
• No, with his suit, neatly parted hair, and his flat Midwestern vowels, Krein appeared like a whiz kid from the Kennedy Administration.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• Texas whiz kid beats teens in 2012 National Geographic Bee.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 26 May 2012
• Schaefer started teaching the ins and outs of spelling in the early 1970s, and, as the legend of his storied passion grows among Denver’s spelling whiz kids, Schaefer is determined to train a successor to his spelling throne.
  — Elizabeth Hernandez, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
• There’s a lot of growing up happening in today’s tech industry, where former whiz kids made their fortunes and are now settling down, starting families and starting to think about their legacies.
  — Kevin Roose, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
• But the problem is the people that create the algorithms are usually politically-correct whiz kids.
  — Fox News, 27 July 2018
• To reach the championship round, the finalists first had to beat more than 50 of the nation's top geography whiz kids, surviving a gauntlet of brain-twisting questions and heartbreaking eliminations.
  — CBS News, 24 May 2018
• This a true story about how a budget-conscience general manager in charge of a small-market team and young whiz kid successfully reinvented baseball from an analytical perspective in 2002.
  — Matt Schubert, The Denver Post, 1 May 2020

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024