as in wizard
a very smart person
he must be some kind of wiz to have graduated college at age 19
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Recent Examples of wiz
Miller was a vfx wiz who made his directorial debut with Deadpool, the Ryan Reynolds-starring anti-superhero movie that became a record-breaking box office sensation and launched a franchise.
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
Iza was a computer wiz who’d made millions off crypto.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Rensch’s parents were pulled into the group, where the young chess wiz spent his childhood running around barefoot in a remote forest village.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Creative wiz Michael Lasswell has built an entire rustic cabin farmhouse set design, complete with hidden secret reveals for the audience.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
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Borys Kit, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025
Iza was a computer wiz who’d made millions off crypto.
—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
Rensch’s parents were pulled into the group, where the young chess wiz spent his childhood running around barefoot in a remote forest village.
—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Creative wiz Michael Lasswell has built an entire rustic cabin farmhouse set design, complete with hidden secret reveals for the audience.
—Philip Potempa, Chicago Tribune, 11 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiz
Noun
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That won't mean much to most gamers or even most PC enthusiasts, but for memory-tuning wizards like 1usmus, more levers to pull in overclocking and timing adjustments may make more capable memory overclocks possible in the future.—
Jon Martindale,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2026
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Get ready for witches, munchkins and even the wizard.—
Stacey Zable,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2026
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Three years ago, this selection might have looked like genius.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
25 Apr. 2026
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The Spurs’ two youngest players made their coach look like a genius.—
Jeff McDonald,
San Antonio Express-News,
25 Apr. 2026
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Perrin’s contributions go beyond his bus-driving heroics A slender young man with a mop of curly brown hair, Perrin is a math whiz who graduated high school in Arcata at 16 and has been working at Kneeland Elementary ever since.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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Torii Hunter, a defensive whiz who now works as an Angels special assistant and who happened to be in the dugout, was succinct in his praise for the performance.—
Jeff Fletcher,
Oc Register,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Wiz.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiz. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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