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

Complete consistency and tenability in such theories is not to be expected.

From Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV by Jastrow, Morris

II, � 1 and 2, given an outline of this theory, and have only yet to discuss its present state of tenability.

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.