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Meanings of tenuous in English

Lacking substance or significance; a fragile claim to fame"

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Usage of tenuous in English
1
Violence long preceded computer games, so the link is tenuous at best.
Wired
2
US secretary of state, John Kerry, acknowledged the tenuous situation in Kobani.
The Guardian
3
Still, this strikes me as a rather tenuous way of securing information.
The Guardian
4
Orthodox molecular models often bear a tenuous relationship to the coordinate data.
Pubmed
5
The relationship you draw between migration and productivity therefore seems somewhat tenuous.
Radio NZ
6
I passed my hand over the card and ended our tenuous contact.
The Great Book of Amber
7
Now Rydag was gone, and her tenuous link to Durc was gone.
The Mammoth Hunters
8
And the protein network that does form is tender, tenuous, and fragile.
On food and cooking: the science and lore of the kitchen
9
Moreover these extremely tenuous creatures took a peculiar joy in manipulating solids.
Last and First Men
10
From the timber on the opposite shore came a tenuous smoke skein.
Man-Size
11
Jook sat silently, recognizing how tenuous his grasp on power was becoming.
Genellan: planetfall
12
Britain's position was becoming more tenuous, and we had to fix it.
The Guardian
13
Our household was being held together by the most tenuous of threads.
Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog
14
But then the truth fell like a knife, severing the tenuous connection.
Origin
15
Attaching Lucy's damaged organs to Piper's would be the most tenuous part.
Indivisible
16
This could be the last straw in an already very tenuous picture.
Danielle Steel
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Tenuous across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common