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Six example sentences with tenuous, each labelled with its topic.
The prosecutor's link between the two companies was so tenuous that the judge dismissed that count before lunch.
Law
The startup's claim to profitability rested on a tenuous assumption that every trial user would eventually convert.
Finance
A single spring feeds the oasis, so the whole grove's survival is tenuous during a long drought.
Environment
The argument rests on a tenuous analogy between minds and machines that collapses as soon as anyone asks about feeling.
Philosophy
A three-point lead is tenuous with a minute left, and the coach called a timeout to remind everyone of it.
Basketball
The family's tenuous claim to the throne ran through a great-aunt whom no surviving document ever names.
History
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