How to Use wiz in a Sentence

wiz

noun
  • Even his mom didn’t know her teenage son was a math wiz.
    Janice Neumann, chicagotribune.com, 27 Dec. 2021
  • If the person on your list is a wiz in the kitchen or just getting started, a handy chopping tool is a great gift.
    Tanner Saunders, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Huntsville singer forges future-pop with studio wiz Kelvin Wooten.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 31 Dec. 2020
  • On a happier note, Simon Pegg joins the team, as tech wiz Benji Dunn.
    BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • The Sounders are poised to sign Peruvian scoring wiz Raul Ruidiaz through the 2021 season.
    Morning Brief, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2018
  • But even this jaded math wiz-kid couldn't help but drop his jaw, loose his tongue, and bulge his eyes at the first time Engare cracked open its math-rich heart.
    Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2017
  • Google’s puzzle game won’t turn you into a programming wiz overnight.
    Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Over time, Glendening became a wiz in the faceoff circle.
    Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 28 July 2021
  • Shari Wallin, who performs under the name Void Vision, calls him an equipment wiz who’s helped musicians across the local scene.
    Cassie Owens, Philly.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • There were five Kiwis on the crew plus Australian Glenn Ashby, a multihull wiz who serves as skipper and controls the wingsail.
    CBS News, 26 June 2017
  • Ratthe stars as a tech wiz named Matthew Donovan, who takes a vacation in the wilderness with his wife, Jessica, and friends, intending to record the fun with his iris-cam.
    Noel Murray, latimes.com, 20 July 2017
  • His latest starts in 1941, when a young Aspen ski wiz named Ray falls pregnant with our protagonist, Adam.
    Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Williams is a former chess champion, a math wiz, a savant who downloads hundreds of game applications to his phone to pass the time.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2019
  • Lily Collins stars in the Netflix series as an American social media wiz in the French capital.
    Dan Bilefsky, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • As an electronic wiz he was employed by Bernie's Stores and received multiple sales awards.
    courant.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • This should be an easier lift for Friess an investment wiz with a net worth of more than $500 million, than his flash-in-the-pan flirtation with a Senate run last year.
    Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
  • There’s a scene in the 1978 film classic adaptation, The Wiz, where the ever-so-chic citizens of Emerald City prance and dance in their finest garb as the wiz dictates the color of their ensembles.
    Essence, 26 Sep. 2022
  • Which might give you another pause: Wait, there’s a resident white-coated culinary wiz at a pet-food maker?
    Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2021
  • The actor, admittedly, isn't a tech wiz, but the post-production crew delivered equipment to Gad's home.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2020
  • To save her own business, a PR wiz who doesn't have the holiday spirit agrees to help a struggling single father with his failing Christmas village.
    jsonline.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Dubas landed the Leafs GM job in large part because he is considered a numbers wiz, an analytics savant.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • An expert negotiator, Prince also was a wiz at luring the best talents to work with him — and at a price that would keep productions affordable.
    Chris Koseluk, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 July 2019
  • To salvage her own reputation, a PR wiz agrees to work with the single-father owner of a failing holiday village.
    jsonline.com, 21 Nov. 2020
  • But aside from the amazing cultural adaptability and the gee-wiz-ness of the apomictic thing, there’s another amazing thing about dandelions.
    Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 4 Mar. 2022
  • Neuroscience has now begun to pin down whether the brain of a math wiz somehow takes conceptual thinking to another level.
    Jordana Cepelewicz, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2016
  • With a line of hits and years of experience under his belt, the 33-year-old production wiz has a clear understanding of what is needed from him as a producer — and how to avoid the usual pitfalls of the industry.
    Malcolm-Aimé Musoni, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2020
  • Parsons is also a wiz at structure — tastemaker Gordon Lish is thanked in the back pages — with stories that go long and deep, narratives braided, balanced by a few pieces that are only a few paragraphs of tightly coiled howl.
    Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • But for those who cannot wait another year, a Photoshop wiz at JeepScramblerForums.com has just posted some realistic renderings.
    Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Longtime Corvette development wiz Jim Ingle is the wagon's keeper.
    Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Longtime Placentia resident Gayle Carline tracks those moments that shape her days as a wife, mom, computer wiz and horsewoman.
    Gayle Carline, Orange County Register, 24 Mar. 2017

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