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  • The theory sounded impressive, but the evidence behind it was tenuous
    tenuous = weak
  • I continued to reinforce it as best I could, and it continued to hold tenuously against Marley's full-bodied assaults.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The chaplain's voice floated up to him through the distance tenuously in an unintelligible, almost inaudible monotone, like a gaseous murmur.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • With that, he broke with the tenuous existence that he had created in the village.†  (source)
  • A WINDOW ON THE WORLD Max held Connor's contract tenuously between his fingertips.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • She'll burn all her bridges except the bridge to him, even though the bridge to him is so tenuous.†  (source)
  • However, it's pleasurable to cast a line into the future, no matter how tenuously.†  (source)
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