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

II, � 1 and 2, given an outline of this theory, and have only yet to discuss its present state of tenability.

From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.

The merit of his studies was at once recognized, but the tenability of his hypothesis was long and ardently disputed.

From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Williams, Henry Smith