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tenuous

very thin in gauge or diameter a tenuous thread having thin consistency a tenuous fluid (= fragile, slight, thin) lacking substance or significance; ; ; ; a fragile claim to fame" slight evidence a tenuous argument a thin plot

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  • What words describe something that is thin and weak?

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It's more unstable. Tenuous, like a collection of gases.
The trouble with your theory is not only is it very tenuous, but it's impossible to prove, isn't it?
Well, it's a bit tenuous Sir.
The connection is tenuous.
Your hallowed position atop the worm pile. appears to be most tenuous.
To nourish the fetus during the very tenuous period right after conception, Moya needed to reroute a few resources.
I'm against Dick Raddits and I have a tenuous cause of action.
It will make it even more tenuous for all of us.
But these memories would be. tenuous?
Our current relationship with them on these matters is tenuous at best.
You're in a very tenuous position on the food chain, hoss.
Sounded pretty tenuous.
Films with tenuous links.
Well, that's a very tenuous distinction.
It's more unstable, tenuous, like a collection of gases.
Miss Collins, your proposition interests me, but your terms would make my position with certain parties rather tenuous.
With his wife, he plunged into a thorough programme of research, viewing all the ornithological film material he could find, not missing a reference, however tenuous, to be fully equipped to make a definitive examination of Hitchcock's film.
Situation is tenuous.
Very tenuous.
What endeavors you. to concoct a theory so tenuous?
Not dissonant, but with only a very tenuous tonal relationship.
Your hallowed position atop the worm pile appears to be most tenuous.
The rebels think our tenuous relationship with the Nicaraguan government will prevent us from taking action, but they're wrong.
Tenuous, like a collection of gases.
I kept to tenuous connection with the History school wrote my two essays a week and attended the occasional lecture.
At the moment of farewell, I felt a solitary wave of friendliness towards the man streaked with tenuous gratitude, contempt, respect, animosity, curiosity, and regret that I should not see him again.
I know it's tenuous, but I didn't have anywhere else to go.
And these charges are as tenuous as they are numerous.
She has one single iota of tenuous power.
We got her back, but her heart's still tenuous.
It seems like you have a tenuous grasp on the English language in general.
That's a bit tenuous, isn't it?

News and current affairs

But, unless the Arabs reconcile themselves to the permanent reality of a Jewish state in Palestine, the creation of a Palestinian Arab state will not provide more than the temporary palliative of a tenuous truce between Arabs and Jews.
Can China emulate the recent example of neighboring Myanmar (Burma), which has initiated significant, if still tenuous, political reforms?
Their situation, always tenuous, dramatically worsened.
Internationally, where order is more tenuous, residual concerns about the coercive use of force, even if a low probability, can have important effects - including a stabilizing effect.
Internationally, where order is more tenuous, residual concerns about the coercive use of force, even if a low probability, can have important effects.
He has lost all authority in Gaza, and has a tenuous hold over the West Bank.
Politics has therefore often been more a violent than an electoral struggle, and property rights have often been tenuous.
But the US remained careful not to be drawn into the competing claims over sovereignty, some of which are tenuous, while on others China sometimes has a stronger legal position.
Muslim-majority Indonesia lost its Catholic-majority East Timor through Western political intervention, but its claims to East Timor were tenuous, as it only invaded the island a few decades ago.
While the ceasefire remains popular--albeit increasingly tenuous in light of recent events--few Palestinians wish to see the Palestinian Authority permanently break the back of the armed resistance forces.
The second component of the collective bet - the avoidance of policy mistakes - is similarly tenuous.
Morsi never appreciated his tenuous position.
In fact, the link between European companies and national communities is becoming more tenuous by the day.
Three possible lines of argument - empirical, literary, and causal, each admittedly tentative and tenuous - support the worry that emerging markets' economic performance could suffer dramatically in 2012.
But China's rulers only sometimes embrace the designation - and the Party still sometimes behaves as if it had only a tenuous hold on power.
But, as Lebanon turns to Saudi and Syrian mediators to help rebuild a governing coalition, Iraq moves forward with a tenuous unity government of its own.
Any delay to the treaty, however, will embolden those in Moscow who would rather have the West as an enemy than as a partner - and who thus would like to see the tenuous progress made in recent months to be undone.
Meanwhile, the tenuous status quo in Israel and Palestine is crumbling.
Antyufeyev is using the tenuous ceasefire agreed under the Minsk Protocol to create a cloned KGB service, called the MGB, to intimidate Ukrainian citizens trapped in Donbas into submitting to proxy Kremlin rule.

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