precocity
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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
“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
On the 21st of April, only a third of the way through spring, our 88 degrees may have seemed thermal precocity, an unsought rush to summer.
From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023
The available intelligence scales make possible the diagnosis of intellectual defect, normality or precocity in units of considerable reliability, in the case of pre-adolescents.
From Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods by Hollingworth, Harry L.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
