tenuous

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Unless the war escalates again, even a tenuous ceasefire likely makes that still more far-fetched.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2026

It comes at a tenuous time for the market.

From Barron's • Mar. 2, 2026

It only got uglier from there, leaving the Trojans’ tournament hopes in a tenuous place and their frustrated head coach with his own head in his hands.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026

“It doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t have it. It just means that’s more tenuous … but I do think that we should say it’s wrong and that it’s damaging.”

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

Either one would provide only the most tenuous sympathetic link to my lute string: one percent at best, perhaps only a tenth of that.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss