as in miracle
something extraordinary or surprising
a new drug that is being hailed as the latest prodigy of the medical world
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Recent Examples of prodigy
Police believe the gunman was Claudio Neves-Valente, 48, a onetime physics prodigy from Portugal who later died by suicide after a multistate manhunt.
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Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 26 Dec. 2025
The Mavericks coach was once a basketball prodigy from the East Bay.
—Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 24 Dec. 2025
And Demis Hassabis, the now Nobel Laureate (for his work on AI science breakthrough AlphaFold) and former child chess prodigy, is at the center of Google’s efforts.
—Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2025
And the kid was a prodigy who had been the director of his grandfather’s senior choir in the church that his grandfather built.
—Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 12 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prodigy
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Luckily, a miracle came to me in the form of a workhorse concealer.—
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Other sertanejo and agronejo artists content themselves with promoting agrobusiness interests through their lyrics, praising industrial farming and the miracle of pesticides.—
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During my early childhood, my brother and I lived in innocence, away from the great world, absorbed by sand, waves and marvels of the ocean.—
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Mercifully, the marvels of modern medicine and technology have greatly compensated for these losses.—
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Eventually, their wonder grates on Glaser and the rest of the forest.—
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National parks may have the name recognition, but some of our country’s most beautiful natural wonders and sights are tucked away in state parks.—
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What's more, a new phenomenon is taking shape.—
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There are myriad extraordinary animal phenomena in the natural world, from the running of the salmon to the months-long hibernation of bears.—
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“Prodigy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prodigy. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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