whiz-kid

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The Red Sox, directed by whiz-kid GM Theo Epstein and famed baseball statistician Bill James, had just won their first World Series in 86 years.
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In the case of whiz-kid pollwatcher Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com, that time was apparently 1 AM this morning, when he pushed the button on an epochal survey of fast food.
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Engineered by 20-year-old whiz kid Blake Ross , and shepherded by non-profit organization Mozilla, Firefox quickly carved out around fifteen percent of the browser market, nearly all of it at the expense of Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
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If you refer to a young person as a whiz-kid, you mean that they have achieved success at a young age because they are very clever and very good at something, especially making money.