precocity
Example Sentences
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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
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
Still in high school when he first made waves as the guitarist for the eclectic group the Internet, Lacy’s precocity has always preceded him.
From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022
At the age of twelve years a certain benevolent baronet, whose tenant his father was, had sent him to school in Dublin with a view toward training and encouraging a natural and already renowned precocity.
From The Adventures of a Widow A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
