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whiz-kid; whizz-kid noun a precociously bright child; hence a young person advancing in business faster than expectations US, 1960- Rebel Aussie whizz-kid to publish here. — Richard Neville, Play Power, p. 173, 1970
- Ever since he was a whiz-kid eight-grade physics pupil, Marx had dreamed of becoming a great theoretical scientist[.] — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 125, 1971
- Employment can be riskier than self- employment, even for the whizz kids of the money world, for they can be fired at ten minutes’ notice[.] — Charles Handy, The Age of Unreason, p. 207, 1989
- She, Milly, was some sort of Foreign Office whizz kid and lived in China developing British interests. — Mark Barrowcliffe, Girlfriend 44, p. 307, 2002
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