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
“Sundays were always my favorite day because I knew that we’d all be together,” says Matlin, who became the first deaf actor to win an Oscar in 1987 at the tender age of 21.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 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
The lives we had lived already, at such a young and tender age, gave way to many discussions about the future and what it held for us.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
