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
This frightened Francie into believing that hair grew on the faces of all nuns who entered the convent at a tender age.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
