at the age of

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: at the time of being a specified age
He joined the company at the age of 35.

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Raul Jimenez Jimenez, playing in his fourth World Cup with Mexico at the age of 35, rejoined Wolverhampton Wanderers — relegated from the Premier League last season — from Fulham on the eve of the tournament. — Tom Burrows, New York Times, 12 July 2026 The couturier and fashion label founder was awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) in 2011 by the late Queen Elizabeth II, who died at the age of 96 in September 2022. — Julia Teti, Footwear News, 10 July 2026 Its starting point is the death of the filmmaker’s son, Adrian, in 2016, at the age of twenty-seven, from a fentanyl overdose. — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 10 July 2026 Three years later, censured by his Senate colleagues, ostracized by his party, and ignored by the press, McCarthy drank himself to death, a broken man at the age of 48. — Robert B. Reich, Hartford Courant, 10 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for at the age of

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