Example sentences for: wunderkind

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  • Martina Hingis and Pete Sampras won the women's and men's tennis championships at Wimbledon . Sportswriters lionized Hingis as a Wunderkind (she's 16, the youngest Wimbledon champ in a century) and Sampras as arguably the greatest player ever (he's on track to shatter the record for men's grand slam titles).

  • If the drummer, Tony Williams, hadn't been such a Wunderkind (or "motherfucker," Davis' preferred term), Davis, who was an amateur boxer, might have taught him another kind of lesson.

  • But if he sinned against his daughter and her gender by giving his Wunderkind son-in-law the controlling interest in the Post (no man should have to work for his wife, the old man said), then Graham surely sinned against her eldest child, journalist Lally, for handing the keys to the Washington Post Co. to the younger Donald.

  • Critics conclude that Wunderkind Matt Damon--the film's star and (with co-star Ben Affleck) co-author--lives up to his hype.

  • Each has its own clever nickname--the Trying Twenties, the Catch Thirties, the Forlorn Forties--and archetypal member: the Transient, the Wunderkind, the Caregiver, the Nurturer Who Defers Caregiving, the Caregiver Who Defers Nurturing.


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