tender age
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She bought the first for $2.7 million at the tender age of 17, before picking up a nearby home for $6 million.
From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026
He did not think of himself as a precocious intellect but he took up a scholarship at the University of Chicago at the tender age of 15.
From BBC • Nov. 7, 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
Open at the tender age of 20 over Harry Vardon, a British golf titan credited with inventing the modern grip and swing.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025
There Kelvin proved himself such a prodigy that he was admitted to Glasgow University at the exceedingly tender age of ten.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
