precocious
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Few have been better judges of a player's potential than Wenger and Ferguson, who both knew this precocious playmaker was heading for the top.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
A precocious talent who burst on the scene in 2006, Kim was the spark-plug of the 2008 US Ryder Cup team that beat Europe at Valhalla Golf Club in Kentucky.
From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026
No one finished out 2025 talking about Disney bastardizing everyone’s favorite precocious blue alien, but “Materialists” was still driving conversations and reactions well through the end of the year.
From Salon • Jan. 6, 2026
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 • Dec. 3, 2025
Why was the disk’s precocious technology not widely adopted in Crete or elsewhere in the ancient Mediterranean?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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