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Definition
weak or having little substance
- A tenuous and sudden memory.Chapter Twenty-two (88% in)
tenuous = weak or having little substance
- To see them together was like a tenuous belief made real.Chapter Nineteen (93% in)
- These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections—sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent—that happened after I was gone.Chapter Twenty-three (50% in)
There are no more uses of "tenuous" in The Lovely Bones.
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