How to Use prodigy in a Sentence

prodigy

noun
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  • Programs billed her as one of the greatest child prodigies since Mozart.
    — Cathy Free, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2024
  • That’s merely a record, something that can be usurped in 30 or 40 years by the next prodigy that comes along.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Luk Kop didn’t seem to have the makings of a musical prodigy.
    — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • The film was scripted by Scott Frank and centered on a seven-year-old child prodigy.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 16 Jan. 2024
  • There was talk of finding the child prodigy a new instrument.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2023
  • Yet the prodigy grew up in a San Diego house where listening to rock and roll was forbidden.
    — Alan Paul, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Such has been the life of Alyssa Thompson, the 18-year-old soccer prodigy from Harvard-Westlake.
    — Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The child prodigy Philippa Duke Schuyler reads Plutarch on train trips, eats steaks raw, and writes poems in honor of her dolls.
    — Erin Overbey, The New Yorker, 26 June 2022
  • The plot concerns a rabbinic prodigy named Nahum, who falls in love with his father-in-law’s young wife and gets her pregnant.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
  • This prodigy, who has the weight of a nation on his shoulders, exudes joy and character for one so novice.
    — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Even as a child prodigy, Schumann was placed in the top tier of her contemporaries, both male and female.
    — Hartford Courant, 9 June 2022
  • But the pop prodigy had his life marked by addiction and mental health struggles.
    — Toby Hershkowitz, ABC News, 3 May 2023
  • But once he's gotten his footing, this little Elf is a prodigy.
    — Katie Bowlby, Country Living, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Martina Hingis, a prodigy from Switzerland, came up in the early days of the Williams sisters and ran Serena close for a while.
    — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Both were prodigies who began working on their craft and breaking through as young children.
    — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The 16-year-old prodigy of the La Masia academy Lamine Yamal can also probably be added to the list.
    — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The former child chess prodigy even bought his first computer from the winnings of chess tournaments.
    — Byandrea Guzman, Fortune, 13 June 2023
  • And meanwhile the portrait of St. Azed of Alquaréz stood propped up among Solomon’s everyday cups and saucers on a kitchen shelf nearby, unnoticed by the prodigy.
    — Cynthia Ozick, Harper’s Magazine , 10 Apr. 2023
  • Most people aren't considered a producing prodigy at the age of 22.
    — Bianca Betancourt, Harper's BAZAAR, 26 Apr. 2023
  • She was considered a child prodigy in dance and by age 10 received a degree to begin teaching dance.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Two high school prodigies crack the ability to travel through time, though one of them uses it to try and change a traumatic event in her past, with consequences for the present.
    — Marisa Lascala, Good Housekeeping, 22 Aug. 2023
  • George had invited Sullivan in as a guest artist, and Goldings was introduced to the tap prodigy.
    — Brynn Shiovitz, Los Angeles Times, 11 Dec. 2023
  • The following year, the young prodigy dedicated his Opus 3 to Charlotte.
    — Lauren Hubbard, Town & Country, 6 May 2023
  • His Lenny is a prodigy, a prankster, a seducer, a monk of creative devotion and, through it all, a man of epic contradiction.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The Sandlot – In the summer of 1962, a new kid in town is taken under the wing of a young baseball prodigy and his rowdy team, resulting in many adventures.
    — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 30 Oct. 2022
  • As a child-prodigy pianist, organist and composer, Saint-Saëns was sometimes called a French Mozart.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022
  • Amend said just as people would not expect a tennis prodigy to develop on their own, the same is true for gifted children.
    — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 17 June 2022
  • Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless musical prodigy Lopez met on Skid Row.
    — Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The prep prodigy from the Washington suburbs dutifully prepared for the biggest race of his life by himself.
    — Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Tyler, a baseball prodigy, beloved son and addiction sufferer, was dead at 27.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2023

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