tenuous in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

tenuous in the PONS Dictionary

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The connections between these titles is rather tenuous, there being no single character or place that appears in all six.
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With no oil reserves and the country's tenuous relations with its oil-rich neighbors, the search for a stable source of energy is a national priority.
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One reason for this is because of the tenuous blood supply to the proximal segment.
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The two conspired to decrease prices and mitigate the farmers' profit margins, making their continued existence tenuous.
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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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The oxygen produced by radiolysis forms tenuous atmospheres around rings and icy moons.
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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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Continuously tenuous gear placements in a row with up to 30 m ledge fall potential.
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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 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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