Memory connection
Picture “ten-you-us thread”
Ten people try to tow a truck with a single spider-silk thread. The connection exists, but it is far too weak to trust.
The sound cue helps you reach the scene; the action in the scene carries you from the scene to the definition.
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Meaning in context
The article draws only a tenuous connection between the two events.
After months without funding, the organization’s future looked tenuous.
Tenuous often describes links, evidence, claims, control, or situations that barely hold together. It can also mean extremely slender or thin.
Common patterns
- a tenuous link
- tenuous evidence
- remain tenuous
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