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
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
It was thus that the early patron of More, Cardinal Morton, sagaciously contemplated on the precocity of More’s boyhood.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
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