tenuous
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Adam Baron, a fellow at US-based think tank New America, said the Houthi offensive since Thursday had "shattered much of what was left of Yemen's tenuous ceasefire".
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Entry-level jobs pay relatively little, job security is tenuous and the math of going out matters.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
Even within the tenuous reality of the movie, Frankie and Molly aren’t focused on saving their own necks, especially after their clairvoyant powers kick in and the friends realize they can communicate with closed mouths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
By the time a tenuous ceasefire took effect on 8 April, US forces had struck over 13,000 targets across Iran, according to the White House.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
And, of course, as replication became the test, historical facts, which had once seemed so solid and reliable, came to seem increasingly fragile and tenuous.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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