What's the difference between phenom and wunderkind?

Phenom


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  • (1) A get a rookie phenom on the bench in Xander Bogaerts just waiting to come in and turn the series on its head, piles of starting pitching, boatloads of bullpen talent, a Cardinals team capable of scoring in droves without hitting homers and a Boston lineup that bullied the AL all season long by racking up over 850 runs, even if they haven't scored many lately .
  • (2) Luckily the Cardinals will have rookie phenom Michael Wacha, who has yet to take a loss this postseason, on the mound tonight .
  • (3) Dr Michael Dobbie, chief executive of the Australian Phenomics Network, said the program had provided critical infrastructure for the Australian biomedical research fraternity.
  • (4) Yes the Rays have actually scored fewer runs per game since rookie phenom Wil Myers joined the lineup (surprising), but who cares now that close to normal service has resumed on the pitching front – a 2.26 staff ERA and a .206 batting average against in July, with David Price dominating opponents once more.
  • (5) Former World Player of the Year Kaka and Robinho, the one-time phenom who inspired Pele to stop a training session and tell the then teenager he reminded him of himself, would certainly fit the bill, and help satisfy some of the 214,369 people who “liked” Orlando City’s Brazilian Facebook page within two months of it being set up.
  • (6) When they started the season without phenom Manny Machado and lost him again to a freakish August injury .
  • (7) 12.45am BST Boston Red Sox lineup The big news is, as expected, rookie phenom Xander Bogaerts is in the starting lineup once again for struggling third baseman Will Middlebrooks.
  • (8) Bryce Harper, the other half of the phenom dream team, had quite the start to a season, hitting two home runs in his very first at bats, just in case anyone was thinking about any potential sophomore slump.
  • (9) Although many teams have afforded second, third and fourth chances to players with behaviour concerns in the past, they are less likely to do so for a 30-year-old offensive guard than they might for a young phenom at another position.
  • (10) It also comprises artificial organisms, including a genome, a phenome, and a (developmental) map that connects the genome to the phenome.
  • (11) Severe hyperthermia, lethal to the cells, does not lead to L1Rn activation (actually a marked suppression is seen) and the mode of phenomic death is necrosis.
  • (12) You see it, especially on junior staff, they’re now caught in this situation – what do they do – so it’s a very awkward time at the moment.” Professor Chris Goodnow, of the Australian Phenomics Facility, said he was due in Washington in two weeks for a meeting “which gives us in Australia a seat at the table of the very cutting edge of genomics and biomedical research”.

Wunderkind


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  • (1) No, actually, I am referring to the new HBO series created by and starring ubertalented, zeitgeist-munching wunderkind Lena Dunham , which has just premiered to largely the ravest of rave reviews in the US.
  • (2) Perhaps the most sensational competition debut is the 25-year-old wunderkind Xavier Dolan with his black-comedy-cum-Oedipal heartbreaker Mommy .
  • (3) Juve replied with a brace of their own, both by the man who would become Ranieri's predecessor at Chelsea, Vialli, then an unforgettable late winner from a teenaged wunderkind called Del Piero.
  • (4) He has also worked for several long-established companies (Monte-Carlo Ballet, Geneva Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet, Cullberg Ballet in Sweden, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in New York); as well as in several duets – Zero Degrees (2005) with British-Bengali wunderkind Akram Khan , Dunas (2009) with flamenco dancer María Pagés , and Play (2009) with Paris-based Indian dancer Shantala Shivalingappa .
  • (5) Andy Hornby Photograph: Getty Images Andy Hornby, former HBOS boss The former wunderkind of British business who came top of his 800-strong class at Harvard and rose to become a board director of Asda by the age of 32 was the man running HBOS when it had to be rescued by Lloyds.
  • (6) Later, as the packed room erupted over Nigerian wunderkind WizKid's Azonto Freestyle.
  • (7) After saying that there would be an announcement on Monday, Solskjaer suddenly reappeared and produced Mats Moller Daehli, an 18-year-old Norwegian wunderkind from the manager's old club, Molde.
  • (8) Not that anyone seemed to have told Ben Barry , the wunderkind who started his own model agency at the age of 16, who for reasons best known to himself chose to deliver a Harvard Business School first-year PowerPoint lecture on fashion marketing.
  • (9) You see, despite the glowing reports that regularly appear in the international media featuring Iceland as some kind of "economic recovery wunderkind" – which are usually grossly exaggerated – the present government has failed to live up to expectations.
  • (10) Is there a more remarkable wunderkind at Cannes 2014 than the 25-year-old Québécois Xavier Dolan, making his competition debut with Mommy, his fifth feature film as director.
  • (11) While Thompson appears to have been the technical wunderkind of the Derp operation, the group is still active.
  • (12) The screen adaptation , however, finessed its narrative problems and begat a sleek and vividly thrilling movie from the then unknown wunderkind Steven Spielberg.
  • (13) NEXT WEEK Discovering just what happened to Ajax's English wunderkind, Sonny Pike, and the player who has played for clubs in six capital cities.
  • (14) His latest single, Wavvy , has received Twitter love from the likes of Grimes and Devonté Hynes, and his upcoming mixtape has been produced by current wunderkinds Brenmar and Nguzunguzu among others.
  • (15) Consider, for instance, last week's excited headlines over the fact that American venture capitalists had invested $50m in Buzzfeed , the wunderkind of website growth (currently claimed at 75% a year).
  • (16) A marketing wunderkinds slant on the Easter egg, the Kinder Surprise is often placed strategically in check outs within toddler reach, and the attraction more often lies with the plastic toy inside it, rather than the promised calcium-rich chocolate hit.
  • (17) No whiff of misdemeanour ever attached itself, however, to the other rising stars, Annunziata Rees-Mogg, Helen Whately, Jeremy Brier, Mark Clarke – all young, all described as wunderkinder , all brought in as part of this Milk Tray advert politics (in fairness, Blair started it) where a fit person, in black, is held to be capable of anything.
  • (18) First, there was the wunderkind author of Goodbye, Columbus (1959), a landmark postwar debut.
  • (19) As copies of the original go, this stuff's almost as faithful as Faithful , that 1976 album by Todd Rundgren – a favourite, incidentally, of Tame Impala, and the feeling's mutual – wherein the skinny 70s wunderkind reworked psych-era classics including the Fabs' Rain and Strawberry Fields Forever .
  • (20) He isn’t Hillary Clinton , gritting painfully through every interaction with a voter or a reporter, but nor is he some sort of retail wunderkind like Bill Clinton who feeds off of human interaction.

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