tenuously
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Ms. Goodman finds the right measure of sugar in this novel-in-stories depicting three generations of Rubinsteins, an East Coast Jewish-American clan tenuously bound by love, ritual and guilt trips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
The success of that series forced me to confront difficult aspects of my childhood, including the fraught relationship I had tenuously built with my dad.
From Salon ● May 18, 2025
But song and story are only tenuously tethered.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
All those come together in the finale of the enormous Fourth, a layered collage of tunes and textures that, under Dudamel’s baton, feels as unsettled and tenuously harmonious as America itself.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
The men existed all alone out there in the void of space, connected so tenuously to Earth, with the real possibility that something could go wrong.
From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly
Vocabulary lists containing tenuously
Into Thin Air
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Hidden Figures
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 1
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