plural wizzes
chiefly US, informal
: a person who is very good at something : wizard sense 2
a computer/financial wiz
She's a wiz at math.
Sheriff Woody was doing some unnatural things. Of course, he's a cartoon character, an invention of the wizzes at Pixar …—
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he must be some kind of wiz to have graduated college at age 19
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—Jesse Hyde, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
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—Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2025
Pedal-steel guitar and multi-instrumental wiz David Lindley was lured away to join Jackson Browne’s band in Los Angeles, where Reid soon moved after being signed by Atlantic.
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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
Pedal-steel guitar and multi-instrumental wiz David Lindley was lured away to join Jackson Browne’s band in Los Angeles, where Reid soon moved after being signed by Atlantic.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Aug. 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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“Wiz.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wiz. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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