precocious

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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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 24, 2025

He did not think of himself as a precocious intellect but he took up a scholarship at the University of Chicago at the tender age of 15.

From BBC • Nov. 7, 2025

The precocious girls soon cotton on to the headmistress’s ruse and parry her appeals to dish on Miss Brodie.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

When adults tell a child or a teenager that they’re precocious, what they’re really saying is, “Please don’t say that aloud.”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin