precocious

Example Sentences

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"What would an incredibly precocious child, who remembers everything he ever thought - because computers don't forget things - feel like when he started talking?"

From BBC

Macaulay was a self-made man elevated to the pinnacle of Britain’s ruling class, thanks to his precocious intelligence and scholarly brilliance.

From The Wall Street Journal

The most precocious have become known as "Sephora Kids" -- a reference to the popular French beauty retailer -- as they seek to copy popular TikTok or YouTube influencers, some of whom are as young as seven.

From Barron's

It was seen as too precocious or too artsy or too, I don’t know, overly grand.

From Los Angeles Times

By then I was well known for being precocious—what today we might term “gifted.”

From Literature