adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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Fitzwilliam's brothers-in-law also seem to have had ducal connections, although these are more tenuous .
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But his links to his government are more tenuous , his loyalties less clear.
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The organization that flows from the office of shaikh was more tenuous , more negotiable, but crucial to making peaces.
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The final assumption, which is actually a subcategory of the second assumption, may be a bit more tenuous .
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My identity was becoming more and more tenuous .
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Their ability to control and to recover control of a class is more tenuous , and their reputations are more vulnerable.
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The relationship between sociological theories of the causes of crime and theories about its treatment is much more tenuous .
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Once we move beyond the primary sensory receiving areas the situation gets even more tenuous .
■ NOUN
link
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Shift work added to the tenuous links between incomer men and their Shetlander neighbours.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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During this period, Ireland's contact with Rome was often difficult and tenuous .
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For both religions, the attachment of the soul to the body was quite tenuous and temporary.
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Instead, extraordinarily tenuous arguments were used to relate the competition results to Scott's appointment.
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See how indefinite are our shapes, see how tenuous our hold on this world grows?
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The family link with her treasure, she says, is rather tenuous .
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These rivals scratched out a tenuous existence through a combination of herding animals and marginal cultivation of the soil.