precocity
Example Sentences
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Yet the most striking thing about him is not the precocity.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
“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
Elevating the work of elders and removing some of the shine from precocity is a start.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2022
But the case of an imitative artist reproducing impressions derived from literature is different; and the circumstances of Terence's Phoenician origin and early life may well have developed in him a precocity of talent.
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.
Vocabulary lists containing precocity
The Scarlet Letter
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The Handmaid's Tale
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The Turn of the Screw
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