precocity
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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
“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
Youthful precocity is a given in Anderson’s movies, as are the stirrings of young love.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 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
The famous Crichton went up to St Andrews at the age of ten, though up to that time he had not given evidence of any extraordinary precocity.
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John
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