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tenuous adjective airy, attenuated, delicate, fine, flimsy, illusory, inconsequential, infinitesimal, little, miniature, minute, narrow, paltry, petty, scant, slender, slight, small, thin, tiny, trifling, trivial, unsubstantial See also: illusory, insignificant, insubstantial, marginal, nonsubstantial, null, slight How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Conversations with the two administrators of these projects also indicate their feelings of the tenuousness, or conditionality, of the learning dynamic. For Americans, the gasoline price spikes following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita brought home the tenuousness of short-term energy supplies. Just a few years after the 1994 elections, the government considered calling in the army into parts of the Transkei to restore order, a clear indication of political involution and the tenuousness of their grip on the former homeland. |
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