precocity
Example Sentences
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Yet the most striking thing about him is not the precocity.
From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026
Her precocity gives the novel its wit, but Shteyngart is also alert to the fact that a child, however bright, is fundamentally helpless.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 2025
“Such precocity, such regularity, is rare, almost unique. He’s someone who, if he is not injured, can manage to score between 45 and 55 goals each year, for years to come.”
From Washington Times • Nov. 20, 2023
With warmth and humor, Hsu evokes the precocity of college life: “We stayed up so late, possessed by delirium, that we came up with a theory of everything, only we forgot to write it down.”
From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022
His precocity was, however, the normal and healthy development of a mind as fond of mechanical principles as Raphael was of color.
From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre
Vocabulary lists containing precocity
The Scarlet Letter
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The Turn of the Screw
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