prodigy

noun

ˈprä-də-jē How to pronounce prodigy (audio)
Definition of prodigynext
as in miracle
something extraordinary or surprising a new drug that is being hailed as the latest prodigy of the medical world

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Recent Examples of prodigy The novel is the first in a trilogy that follows two piano prodigies on course for a romantic collision in the early 1800s. — Sky Davis, Christian Science Monitor, 13 Oct. 2026 This isn’t the first time the child prodigy has graced the screen. — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026 At the height of Bratmania, Charli XCX opted for a co-headlining tour with Troye Sivan where she went hit for hit with the Australian dance-pop prodigy, who was not quite having the same sort of mammoth run. — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 9 Oct. 2026 Literary fiction Partita by Barbara Kingsolver A former piano prodigy receives an unexpected call from the man who derailed her ambitions years earlier, and must decide whether to open her life to him once again. — New York Times, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for prodigy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for prodigy
  1. miracle
  2. marvel
  3. wonder
  4. phenomenon
Noun
  • The re-emergence of a long-unseen Jean-Michel Basquiat masterpiece is a miracle the art market occasionally performs.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2026
  • On Saturday, with the usual early season smattering of fans lost in the cavernous Yale Bowl, Dante Reno didn’t have another comeback or miracle game in him.
    — Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
Definition of miracle
Noun
  • This was performance at its peak, a marvel to behold of an artist who helped build hip-hop as an institution while adding to the story still being written.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 25 Oct. 2026
  • The fact that Drew still gazed upon my more than half-a-century-old, decidedly not-hot physique with love and desire was a marvel and a gift.
    — Diana Daniele, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of marvel
Noun
  • Much like her character Klara, Ortega chooses to have faith in humans and their spontaneous wonder.
    — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Karant experienced the same wonder of the space, even once it had been hollowed out.
    — Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of wonder
Noun
  • The health emergency caused demand for fuel to crash to the point that the world ran out of room to store oil, a phenomenon that briefly drove crude oil futures below zero for the first time ever.
    — Matt Egan, CNN Money, 26 Oct. 2026
  • In 1980, to better understand this phenomenon, the mathematician and economist Graciela Chichilnisky turned to topology, an area of math in which shapes are considered equivalent if one can be stretched into another without tearing.
    — Alex Stone, Quanta Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of phenomenon

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