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Her reasoning is tenuous at best.tenuous = weak (hard to support)
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The peace between the two countries was tenuous and could collapse at any moment.tenuous = fragile or uncertain
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Despite their disagreement, their friendship hung by a tenuous thread.tenuous = fragile or weak
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The ladder was balanced in a tenuous position, wobbling as he climbed.tenuous = physically unstable
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The theory sounded impressive, but the evidence behind it was tenuoustenuous = weak
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I continued to reinforce it as best I could, and it continued to hold tenuously against Marley's full-bodied assaults.† (source)
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I started tenuously down the fixed lines, stiff with dread.† (source)
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The situation at home had become even more tenuous.† (source)
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The chaplain's voice floated up to him through the distance tenuously in an unintelligible, almost inaudible monotone, like a gaseous murmur.† (source)
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He felt that the real Lily was still there, close to him, yet invisible and inaccessible; and the tenuity of the barrier between them mocked him with a sense of helplessness.† (source)
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From his eyes I could tell that Pearce recognized the subtlety and tenuousness of both our connection and our enmity.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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With that, he broke with the tenuous existence that he had created in the village.† (source)
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A WINDOW ON THE WORLD Max held Connor's contract tenuously between his fingertips.† (source)
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Presumably the notes which we hear at such moments tend to spread out before our eyes, over surfaces greater or smaller according to their pitch and volume; to trace arabesque designs, to give us the sensation of breath or tenuity, stability or caprice.† (source)
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As if to emphasize the tenuousness of Levi Saunders' existence, he became violently ill the day following his bar mitzvah and was taken by ambulance to the Brooklyn Memorial Hospital.† (source)
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She'll burn all her bridges except the bridge to him, even though the bridge to him is so tenuous.† (source)
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However, it's pleasurable to cast a line into the future, no matter how tenuously.† (source)
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