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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This one just happens to involve wizards, goblins, and one savage, half-blind dragon.—
Séamas O'Reilly,
Vulture,
26 Mar. 2026 -
Of all the wizards of modern AI, Amodei, the theoretical physicist who founded Anthropic, maker of Claude, is the most publicly anxious about the impact of his product on the world at large, seemingly spooked by his own predictions.—
Joe Hagan,
Vanity Fair,
18 Mar. 2026
Noun
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If Hafley can get all three to meet or exceed their draft-day expectations, the rebuild zooms way ahead of the curve, and Hafley and his staff look like coaching geniuses.—
Chris Perkins,
Sun Sentinel,
26 Mar. 2026
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There are a lot of geniuses out there.—
Josh Tyrangiel,
The Atlantic,
22 Mar. 2026
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Yet Christgau, through the Consumer Guide, was the only music critic to wear his system-making brains on the outside.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
29 Mar. 2026
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To be clear, Cortical Labs’s neural cells aren’t extracted from brains.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
28 Mar. 2026
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