tenability
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“The Carmichael Show” owes its title, its format and its tenability as mainstream sitcom to “The Cosby Show,” and the episode is completely aware of it.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2016
For months we’ve had fun doubting the tenability of Gallery Girl’s premise.
From Slate ● Aug. 13, 2012
But that answer is losing its political tenability, says John D. Donahue of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.
From New York Times ● Jun. 23, 2012
The tenability of this view is suggested by the achievements of the synthetic chemists, who are able artificially to build up substances such as oxalic acid, indigo, salicylic acid, caffeine, and grape-sugar.
From The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told by J. Arthur Thomson
These data reconcile, in part, the conflicting points of view, or at least show the tenability of each.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 by Various
