Sample Sentences for
precocious
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    Even these days, if someone asks her what I was like as a kid, she describes me as "alert, but not terribly precocious."  (source)
    precocious = showing special ability or maturity at a young age
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    Though he was precocious, though he was verbal to the point of annoyance at times, he was small for his age, more the size of a six- or seven-year-old than a ten-year-old.  (source)
    precocious = showing early development in ability or maturity
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    She spoke as though she were talking to a precocious child.  (source)
    precocious = a child who takes liberties usually afforded to people who are older
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    I judged, then, that the children of that time were extremely precocious, physically at least, and I found afterwards abundant verification of my opinion.  (source)
    precocious = developed early
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    You examine every turn of flesh for precocity, and crow it to the world.†  (source)
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    Educated at Durmstrang, a school famous even then for its unfortunate tolerance of the Dark Arts, Grindelwald showed himself quite as precociously brilliant as Dumbledore.†  (source)
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    Unaware of the practical implications of these events on his life, or perhaps regarding them with childish indifference while trusting that the world would take care of him one way or the other, he betrayed a similarly childish reserve and businesslike attentiveness when viewing coffins, which on this third occasion took on nuances of precociousness, both in his emotional reaction and the look of knowledgeable experience on his face—it being unnecessary likewise to describe his natural reaction of being caught up in the frequent tearful outbursts of others.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    ...the most independent, precocious, rebellious teens are hardly likely to be the most susceptible to rational health advice.  (source)
    precocious = behaving in a manner considered more appropriate for someone who is older
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    Applicants for the position were given a subscription to The Grave; the snide, sneering precocity of the student body was well represented in its pages—and best represented by the capitals that commanded one's gaze to Owen Meany.†  (source)
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    The soldiers folded their blankets and jumped down from the boxcar to walk in the sodden fields and breathe the fresh air, as a winter afternoon precociously imitated evening.†  (source)
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    He grinned at me like I was a precocious child.†  (source)
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    It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.†  (source)
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    Thanks to Madame Lafayette, they were seated in a gallery overlooking the choir, "as good a place as any in the church," thought John Quincy, who in a long description of the spectacle in his diary demonstrated that besides being precociously erudite, he had learned, as his father urged, to observe the world around him and was well started on becoming an accomplished writer.†  (source)
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