wunderkind

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Humboldt cried out with enthusiasm that he was a wunderkind, and if there were more than Sophie Solutzeff to be jealous.

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  • Garfield also gives his stamp of approval to the film's director ... even though friends warned him that his already dark, bloody tale was about to become a lot darker and a lot bloodier Charles Bronson Death Sentence director James Wan is best known as the wunderkind behind the brutal Saw films, in which a sadistic kidnapper uses fiendish contraptions to test, torture, and kill his captives. —  AHMM,October2007
  • NOTE: While the Arabs secured their status with Europe through violence and fear of future violence, Israel secured its position as a friend and ally of the US through: hard work, proving Israel a valid asset to US foreign interests, and through being an economic, research and development "wunderkind". —  Tundra Tabloids.......
  • November 8: 26 year-old GOP "wunderkind" Aaron Schock, who's running to succeed retiring Republican Ray LaHood (IL-18), announces a downright insane plan to sell nuclear weapons to Taiwan in order to coerce China to fall in line with American policy towards Iran. announces his retirement from the House, leaving Democratic state Sen. John Adler well-poised to capture this D+3 open seat. —  Swing State Project
  • For some 30 years now, the Minneapolis wunderkind has been all about the big idea, and nine times out of 10, he has delivered the goods. —  The Buffalo News: Home
  • "He is the wunderkind," says Kirp, noting that Conley won tenure at New York University when he was 29 and became chairman of the sociology department when he was 36. —  Forbes.com: News
 

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  1. German : Wunder, wonder, prodigy (from Middle High German, from Old High German wuntar) + Kind, child; see kindergarten.
 

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