as in wizards
a very smart person
he must be some kind of wiz to have graduated college at age 19
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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 -
This one just happens to involve wizards, goblins, and one savage, half-blind dragon.—
Séamas O'Reilly,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026
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Like nuclear-fission research, machine learning was a small scientific field with epochal implications which was dominated by a cadre of eccentric geniuses.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
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And when the battleground is AI and art, geniuses often seem like The Good Guys.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
6 Apr. 2026
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But a few years before our discovery, researchers found that the same protein [called TDP-43] is found in the spinal cords of patients with ALS and in the brains of patients with FTD.—
Allison Parshall,
Scientific American,
24 Apr. 2026
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In 1987, Shields graduated from Princeton, proving she's got beauty and brains to spare!—
Andrea Wurzburger,
PEOPLE,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Wizzes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wizzes. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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