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whiz kid

1

noun

Informal.
  1. a youthful and exceptionally intelligent, successful, or influential person in a given field:

    the whiz kid of network programming.



whiz-kid

2

[ hwiz-kid, wiz- ]

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or being a whiz kid:

    a whiz-kid sales manager.

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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of whiz kid1

First recorded in 1940–45

Origin of whiz kid2

First recorded in 1940–45
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He charmed Rao, a Harvard-educated whiz kid he’d met while at Goldman, to become his co-founder.

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To the end of his life, he had the aura of a nervous whiz kid with oversize glasses and frizzy hair.

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Sapna Cheryan, a professor of psychology at the University of Washington who served a year on Mattel’s Barbie Global Advisory Council in 2018, said Asian Americans have long dealt with two stereotypes: the model-minority whiz kid or the perpetual foreigner.

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The rift that cost artificial-intelligence whiz kid Sam Altman his CEO job at OpenAI reflects a fundamental difference of opinion over safety, broadly, between two camps developing the world-altering software and pondering its societal impact.

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The rift that cost artificial-intelligence whiz kid Sam Altman his CEO job at OpenAI reflects a fundamental difference of opinion over safety, broadly, between two camps developing the world-altering software and pondering its societal impact.

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