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boy wonder
noun
A male child prodigy.
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(The Boy Wonder pulls through).
The Wisconsin boy wonder started slowly.
Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince.
Don't say "The boy wonder".
"We should medal," the boy wonder said bluntly.
The boy wonder had turned into the elder statesman.
MGM billed the novice director as a boy wonder.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is the bad-boy wonder to whom Lee pitches his screenplay.
Leonardo DiCaprio (near right, with Mr. Branagh) is the bad-boy wonder to whom Lee pitches his screenplay.
(Nate Silver, the boy-wonder of stats, shares that unease in his recent book, "The Signal and the Noise").
America's liberal boy-wonder is breaking up with me.
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