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
Acutis was precociously savvy with computers before the social media era, reading college-level textbooks on programming and coding as a youngster.
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Jessie Wardarski, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Jessie Wardarski, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for precociously
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The other half of that spacewalk, Christina Koch, is among the four Artemis II astronauts waiting to fly around the moon as early as March.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
14 Feb. 2026
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Paul Modrowski was 18 years old when prosecutors charged him and a co-defendant with the murder of a friend, Dean Fawcett, whose headless body was discovered months earlier near railroad tracks in Barrington.—
Christy Gutowski,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Feb. 2026
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“Precociously.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/precociously. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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