How to Use wiz in a Sentence

wiz

noun
  • Huntsville singer forges future-pop with studio wiz Kelvin Wooten.
    — Matt Wake | [email protected], al, 31 Dec. 2020
  • Iza was a computer wiz who’d made millions off crypto.
    — Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • How about utility wiz Brice Matthews.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • Google’s puzzle game won’t turn you into a programming wiz overnight.
    — Lisa Eadicicco, Time, 18 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Bruce Bochy’s credentials as a bullpen wiz may get revoked because of this bunch.
    — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Ex-student Charles is a trigonometry wiz, but all the logic in the world can’t prevent his longing for death.
    — Armond White, National Review, 25 Sep. 2024
  • 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
  • On a happier note, Simon Pegg joins the team, as tech wiz Benji Dunn.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 13 May 2021
  • As an electronic wiz he was employed by Bernie's Stores and received multiple sales awards.
    — courant.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • Rensch’s parents were pulled into the group, where the young chess wiz spent his childhood running around barefoot in a remote forest village.
    — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
  • For good measure, as of Wednesday his band now includes jazz-and-way-beyond guitar wiz Julian Lage.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Stine, who Forbes says is dyslexic and mildly autistic, also is a math and data wiz and a formidable negotiator.
    — Donnelle Eller, Des Moines Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Harper Stern, Industry’s biz-wiz protagonist, exposes his fraud and makes a ton of money in the process.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Sounders are poised to sign Peruvian scoring wiz Raul Ruidiaz through the 2021 season.
    — Morning Brief, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The first version, out October 24, will be a country record produced by Nashville wiz Jordan Lehning.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025

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