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wunderkind
[ voon-der-kind, wuhn-; German voon-duhr-kint ]
noun
- a wonder child or child prodigy.
- a person who succeeds, especially in business, at a comparatively early age.
wunderkind
/ ˈwʌndəˌkɪnd; ˈvʊndərˌkɪnt /
noun
- a child prodigy
- a person who is exceptionally successful in his field while still young
Word History and Origins
Origin of wunderkind1
Word History and Origins
Origin of wunderkind1
Example Sentences
Early on, Straubel, the battery wunderkind, helped come up with a system that could manage the heat generated by a pack of lithium-ion batteries and thus avoid the dangers of explosions and fires.
The NHL loves a wunderkind, and they don’t get any better than the Great One or his modern-day equivalent.
It’s just that sometimes certain wunderkinds come along and make everyone forget the adage.
The classic version of the gene editing wunderkind literally slices a gene to bits just to turn it off.
For 2019–20, Völkl has released another engineering wunderkind of a ski in the new, fatter Mantra 102.
Mary Matalin once dubbed him a “mega-multimedia Wunderkind!”
Feinstein, no slouch himself in the wunderkind department, began his career at the age of 20, working for Ira Gershwin.
The novel is narrated by 20-something literary wunderkind Marcus Goldman.
For many Latin America watchers, the fall of this entrepreneurial wunderkind was a body blow to Brazil itself.
In 1951, wunderkind conductor Leonard Bernstein married the beautiful actress Felicia Montealegre.
Isn't he what your countrymen would call a 'Wunderkind,' Mademoiselle?
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