tenuously
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Ms. Goodman finds the right measure of sugar in this novel-in-stories depicting three generations of Rubinsteins, an East Coast Jewish-American clan tenuously bound by love, ritual and guilt trips.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
“These are folks who have multiple homes to their names, and the tenants are clinging tenuously to their only home,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
Even before the Great Stink of 1858, three separate cholera outbreaks had already been tenuously linked to the river by public health authorities.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2023
Some of those details sound suspect; others are at least tenuously drawn from history.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 1, 2023
I started tenuously down the fixed lines, stiff with dread.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
Vocabulary lists containing tenuously
Into Thin Air
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Hidden Figures
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Selection Vocabulary 3, Unit 1
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