precocious
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We’re blessed that Fanning survived the transition from precocious child actor to grown-up movie star with the skills to play a fictional disaster rather than be one offscreen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The connections that turned a precocious teen into the fallen ‘Nostradamus of AI.’
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Coat of Many Colors is also the title of Parton's own children's book, and a 2015 TV movie based on her life - starring Alyvia Alyn Lind as the precocious young singer dreaming of fame.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
By the time she played her first tournament in London, she was hooked, and it wouldn’t take long for the chess world to notice that there was an unusually precocious girl on the scene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
His parents call him precocious; I looked it up, and it does not mean the personification of an earsplitting, nerve-jangling, head-pounding, exasperating plague that makes you long for deportation from your own country.
From "Liar, Liar" by Gary Paulsen
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