precociously

as in early
before the usual or expected time precociously turning gray at the age of 30, she decided to color her hair

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Recent Examples of precociously And that is while seeing a player as precociously gifted as Yamal fast-tracked into the senior squad, a European champion and now a world champion who only turned 19 last week. Oliver Kay, New York Times, 20 July 2026 Students at the Harlem Community Art Center (HCAC)—a vibrant hub for Black creatives like Chicago’s South Side Community Art Center—included the precociously talented teenagers Robert Blackburn and Jacob Lawrence. John P. Murphy, ARTnews.com, 5 Apr. 2026 Acutis was precociously savvy with computers before the social media era, reading college-level textbooks on programming and coding as a youngster. Jessie Wardarski, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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  • Programs such as HyCAT are intended to provide more frequent opportunities to test technologies in realistic flight conditions, potentially allowing developers to identify problems earlier and iterate more quickly.
    Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 6 Sep. 2026
  • The National Weather Service called for blowing dust early Friday evening and a 20% chance of rain on Sunday for nearby Gerlach, Nevada, a community of 58 people about 100 miles north of Reno.
    Dennis Romero, NBC news, 5 Sep. 2026

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“Precociously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precociously. Accessed 12 Sep. 2026.

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