precocity
Example Sentences
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“I think there is a big misunderstanding between precocity and speed,” Ryan said.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
Add six ODIs and a solitary T20i, it still makes for a dismal aggregate of international appearances for a batsman whose precocity had promised a long, dazzling career.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024
Mbappé has also been compared with Brazil great Pelé for his precocity.
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
Your clear eye flashing with precocity, You have displayed yourself proud architect Of fabrics so audaciously correct That we may guess what your ripe prime will be.
From The Three Hills And other Poems by Baudelaire, Charles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
