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Meanings of so tenuous in English

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Usage of so tenuous in English
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Her hold on her emotions was so tenuous, she avoided his gaze.
Day by day
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His existence suddenly seemed so tenuous to me, his figure so fragile.
Anthropology of an american girl: a novel
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But so thin, so tenuous that it exists only beneath the surface.
Future Lovecraft
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Is it so tenuous to suggest that emigration and discrimination could be linked?
The Irish Times
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As an actor you feel so tenuous and on tenterhooks all the time.
Reuters
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Its form seemed so tenuous he feared any violent motion might disperse it entirely.
Imajica: Complete Edition
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It was so tenuous, I couldn't even be sure I'd really had a connection.
Mob rules
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But never in that time has their hold on the knockout stages looked so tenuous.
The Irish Times
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Obscure impulse made him change his mind, some premonition so tenuous as to defy analysis.
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
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I sort of do, but it's so tenuous.
The new yorker
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No other competitor used that beta or looked so tenuous holding the rotation, as commentator Mike Langley noted.
Climbing Magazine
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For myself, I had a strange feeling of relief, a feeling so tenuous that I could never explain it.
Rage
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The union was so tenuous now, infused with the poignancy of Justine's grief as she stretched herself between the two.
The evolutionary void
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It was so tenuous.
Life
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It seems so tenuous.
The Scar
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Not without you to check him when he overreaches, and especially not now, when things are yet so tenuous with the Alliance.
World of warcraft: the shattering: prelude to cataclysm
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