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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a precocious boy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a boy who is unusually advanced or mature in his development, particularly in terms of intelligence or skills.
Example: "At just five years old, he was already reading at a third-grade level, truly a precocious boy."
Alternatives: "an advanced boy" or "a gifted boy".
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Lorenzo, a precocious boy who spoke three languages, started kindergarten that fall.
He was a precocious boy and went to Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, at the age of 14.
Neruda was a precocious boy who began to write poetry at age 10.
A precocious boy, Mergenthaler was anxious to study engineering, but his father, burdened with financing the higher education of older sons, found the expense beyond his means.
The novel is the story of Hurtle Duffield, a precocious boy born into poverty and bought for £500 by a society family.
A precocious boy, he was only 13 when he began studies at a seminary in the theological center of Qum, where he would befriend many of the men who would later become central figures in the Islamic republic.
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Bizet had already shown a gift for composition far superior to that of a merely precocious boy.
Now thIs, at least for me, is a bar.
Adolescence wasn&apos t easy for an intellectually precocious boy with few social skills or athletic interests to help him blend in with his small-town peers.
This movie featured improbably eloquent children and focused on an especially precocious boy who is mocked by his peers and misunderstood by the adults, all of whom are emotionally damaged and less mature than the children.
He was an intense and precocious boy, afflicted all his life with tics, twitches, and grunts, which Todd diagnoses as Tourette's syndrome.
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