precocity
Example Sentences
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Her precocity gives the novel its wit, but Shteyngart is also alert to the fact that a child, however bright, is fundamentally helpless.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 3, 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
On the contrary: He reveled in precocity, cheekiness, iconoclasm and snark.
From New York Times • May 22, 2023
His precocity was, however, the normal and healthy development of a mind as fond of mechanical principles as Raphael was of color.
From Inventors by Hubert, Philip Gengembre
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.