precocity
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Yet the most striking thing about him is not the precocity.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
“I think there is a big misunderstanding between precocity and speed,” Ryan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
“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
His son, Louis, showed great precocity, and at the age of ten translated into French verse one of his father’s Latin pieces; his poems were published with his father’s.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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