tenuous

Example Sentences

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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

Yet it’s still a tenuous time, said Laura Ullrich, Indeed Hiring Lab’s director of economic research in North America.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 11, 2026

Two, she has a place—however tense and tenuous at the moment—to live.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline