tenuous

Example Sentences

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He’s retired, and the rotation is as tenuous as ever.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2026

It comes at a tenuous time for the market.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

“It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have it. It just means that’s more tenuous … but I do think that we should say it’s wrong and that it’s damaging.”

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

Yet it’s still a tenuous time, said Laura Ullrich, Indeed Hiring Lab’s director of economic research in North America.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

The curtains were almost always drawn, leaving the house in a tenuous darkness that kept the cruel desert light at bay.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende