tenability

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“The Carmichael Show” owes its title, its format and its tenability as mainstream sitcom to “The Cosby Show,” and the episode is completely aware of it.

From Salon • Mar. 14, 2016

For months we’ve had fun doubting the tenability of Gallery Girl’s premise.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2012

But that answer is losing its political tenability, says John D. Donahue of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.

From New York Times • Jun. 23, 2012

These data reconcile, in part, the conflicting points of view, or at least show the tenability of each.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various

It is true that this practical realism threatens the tenability of an epistemological idealism, but the two have been united, and because of their common emphasis upon the individual such procedure is not entirely inconsequential.

From The Approach to Philosophy by Perry, Ralph Barton