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Six example sentences with precocious, each labelled with its topic.
At nine she was already playing concertos from memory, a precocious talent the conservatory had not seen in years.
Music
Mary Shelley was a precocious writer, finishing a novel that still unsettles readers before she turned twenty-one.
Literature
The team signed a precocious fifteen-year-old whose reaction times already matched veterans who had trained for a decade.
Gaming
Picasso was so precocious that his father, a painting teacher, reportedly handed over his brushes when the boy was thirteen.
Art
The precocious rookie read defenses like a ten year veteran, calling out the switch before the screen even arrived.
Basketball
Studies of precocious readers find that most simply started earlier, and by ten their classmates have caught up.
Psychology
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