tenuous
Example Sentences
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Tenuous as they may seem, Mr. Cahn saw the links as compelling.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2019
Tenuous golf connection: "50 Shades Of Grey" co-star Dakota Johnson is the daughter of Don Johnson, aka David Simms from "Tin Cup."
From Golf Digest • Oct. 16, 2013
Tenuous and temporary as their grip may be, the Kurds of Iraq have come tantalizingly close to something like their centuries-old dream: a state of their own.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tenuous scientific probes of the happiness phenomenon, as an aspect of mental health, were organized as long ago as the 1960s.
From Time Magazine Archive
Faint on the evening Tenuous and far As the beauty shaken From a vagrant star, Throbbed the ache and passion Of an old guitar.
From Carolina Chansons Legends of the Low Country by Heyward, DuBose
Vocabulary lists containing tenuous
Essential Academic Vocabulary for High School Students, List 2
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Grade 12, List 1
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