tenuous in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

tenuous in the PONS Dictionary

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The distinction between pinto and solid can be tenuous, as so-called solid horses frequently have areas of white hair.
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Our leadership could not have been more tenuous, conflicted and diffuse.
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One reason for this is because of the tenuous blood supply to the proximal segment.
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The remaining five schools continued their tenuous alliance, although the same reason the conference formed (attendance disparities) plagued it through the rest of its existence.
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Sometimes these later choral odes seem to have only a tenuous connection with the plot, linked to the action only in their mood.
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Despite this growing recognition of their importance, these gardens have a very tenuous hold on their land.
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Security in some rural areas was tenuous, and major transportation routes were subject to interdiction by sporadic attacks.
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It is cold, icy, and heavily cratered, with a very tenuous atmosphere.
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She credited her tenuous upbringing with making her a skeptic and a dissenter for the rest of her life.
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The authors concluded that links between media viewing and adolescent sexuality are more tenuous than previous believed.
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