tender age
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“Her adulthood started a little bit early when she became my mom at the tender age of 17,” he wrote at the time.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 25, 2025
Entering parliament at the tender age of 30, he became leader of the D66 just a year later, the youngest ever to hold the post.
From Barron's • Oct. 29, 2025
In 1980, at the relatively tender age of 24, David Sheff landed a journalistic coup in the form of a multipart interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono.
From Salon • Mar. 28, 2025
Few, he felt, could understand the intense pressures of stardom at such a tender age.
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024
But Noris was like me, she wanted to give herself to things, and at her tender age, she could only imagine giving herself to children.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
