How to Use wunderkind in a Sentence

wunderkind

noun
  • At first glance, the wunderkind seemed to have done it again.
    — Cole Stangler, The Atlantic, 1 May 2017
  • Shen scored four goals in that game and has emerged as the newest wunderkind in the sport.
    — New York Times, 10 Mar. 2022
  • Welles, who lost his parents at a young age, was a wunderkind, a child prodigy.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2021
  • Were these the shrewd moves of a wunderkind on the doorstep of a historic election upset?
    — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 23 June 2025
  • The Rikkis is a wunderkind of a rock cover band from Houston.
    — Houston Chronicle, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Taken the air out of the lungs of the wunderkind from Highland Park?
    — Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2021
  • Crypto wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried is about to learn his fate.
    — Rafael Nam, NPR, 28 Mar. 2024
  • Most of the answer depends on Doncic, a wunderkind who seems born for this stage.
    — Jerry Brewer, Washington Post, 15 June 2024
  • Kennedy was a climbing wunderkind who had pulled himself to the top of some of the globe's most demanding peaks.
    — Author: Kyle Swenson, Alaska Dispatch News, 11 Oct. 2017
  • Hard not to believe in him now, still at just 37, a wunderkind turned firebrand of fashion.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 5 May 2022
  • That’s when the duo met Voutilainen, at the time watchmaking’s new wunderkind.
    — Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 31 Mar. 2025
  • Now comes another wunderkind of sorts with a chance to alter the course of the rivalry.
    — Nathan Baird, cleveland, 22 Nov. 2021
  • Wolff was a wunderkind at the age of 30 and seemingly a has-been at the age of 38.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 7 Oct. 2021
  • Born in Dallas, the wunderkind actor launched her career at the tender age of five.
    — Jessica Andrews, Teen Vogue, 5 Nov. 2018
  • The Lions have Matthew Stafford — their own wunderkind, once upon a time.
    — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Yet the 19-year-old wunderkind lines up right beside them all and continues to flourish.
    — Chris Ello, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 July 2017
  • The young wunderkind started out as an intern at the company before rising through the ranks.
    — Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 12 June 2026
  • Ailes, just 28 years old, was the show’s producer — a TV wunderkind.
    — Michael S. Rosenwald, Washington Post, 18 May 2017
  • That hasn’t stopped Buterin, a 28-year-old crypto wunderkind, from having a slew of lofty plans.
    — Steven Zeitchik, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
  • This wunderkind — elected at 23 to lead one of the best and unluckiest cities in the state — was a hands-on kind of guy.
    — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2019
  • That would mark a new, more mature phase for the Silicon Valley wunderkind.
    — Dan Gallagher, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Up-and-coming chef Tatsuro Hirakubo is nothing short of a wagyu wunderkind.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Pico was pegged as a phenom and the future of the sport, a sort of wunderkind and once-in-a-generation talent.
    — Mike Dyce, SI.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • If convicted at the end of the trial, which is expected to last around a month, the one-time crypto wunderkind could face decades in prison.
    — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • At age 22, the rookie quarterback from Missouri is a project, not a wunderkind.
    — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 1 Aug. 2019
  • Across the room, 10-year-old Desmond Napoles, the wunderkind drag kid, sat for a black-and-white manicure.
    — Laura Regensdorf, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Now, in PyeongChang, the wunderkind will finally get her chance to compete amongst the best athletes from around the world.
    — Brittany Martin, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Feb. 2018
  • But that doesn’t mean that the World Cup wunderkind hype machine has been irrevocably shut down.
    — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 12 June 2026
  • The essay went viral and a new Silicon Valley wunderkind was born.
    — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Blake Snell, Tarik Skubal and the wunderkind Trey Yesavage had the most strikeouts.
    — Chad Jennings, New York Times, 2 Nov. 2025

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