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"tenuously" Definitions
  1. in a way that is so weak or uncertain that it hardly exists
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Glover plays his cousin and would-be manager Earn, who is tenuously employed hawking frequent-flier cards in the airport and even more tenuously attached to Van, the mother of his young daughter.
But he has been surprised, tenuously, since the latest chemical attack.
The extinct Denisovans live on, if somewhat tenuously, in our genes.
But such overly broad rules are only tenuously related to public safety.
But these big blue states have plenty of tenuously held Republican House seats.
Still, the stock market is linked, even if tenuously, to the real economy.
But it's likely impossible for as long as Obamacare repeal is still alive, however tenuously.
But he's Biden, so instead he referenced an outdated and tenuously related piece of research.
Each artist anchors their space with a highly sculptural centerpiece that is tenuously linked to photography.
His books are only tenuously connected to what his narrators disparagingly call the supposed real world.
What this has to do with football, we are about to make abundantly if tenuously clear.
Lashkar Gah has suffered many isolated attacks but has been held tenuously by the government throughout.
Prime Minister Theresa May tenuously held on to power on Thursday after her final Brexit gambit backfired.
She ran roughshod over Brahms's "Zigeunerlieder" ("Gypsy Songs"), her voice sounding worn and only tenuously in control.
"China Girl"—and David Bowie in all his tenuously bisexual glory—showed me that you could be both.
What's more pernicious is that this data is tenuously held, or worse, could be used against the driver.
Singapore is a young country made up of groups seen as tenuously linked — ethnic Chinese, Indians and Malays.
Mlodinow tenuously connects his family history, including his father's imprisonment in Buchenwald, to tales of scientific struggle and perseverance.
Often a motor would stall and passengers would be stranded for hours, floating tenuously on a cold, volatile sea.
Although ostensibly linked by plot and characters, the movies relate only tenuously to one another in the traditional sense.
Why is the FBI dumping dozens of documents tenuously linked to the election just a week before it happens?
Hundreds of Islamic State prisoners are reported to have escaped, with thousands more tenuously held by embattled Kurdish militias.
In previous studies, PMS has been tenuously connected to ovarian hormone secretion, and even biologic, social, demographic, and behavioral factors.
The Reebok endorsement deal that she landed in early 2015 was even more tenuously connected to skill and Octagon performance.
Both Fitbit and Jawbone are spending big bucks to fight for bragging rights over an industry that only tenuously exists.
Everywhere else, Jews had lived tenuously, doing their best to be accepted until their host community eventually tired of them.
In Syria, the removal of residents from Aleppo and nearby villages proceeded tenuously after rebels set fire to several buses.
In Syria, the removal of residents in Aleppo and nearby villages proceeded tenuously after rebels set fire to several buses.
Most of us feel only tenuously connected to an oncologist who often does not specialize in ovarian or uterine disease.
But it has sought to add more and more services, some of which appear only tenuously related to corporate life.
The Catcher in the Rye has been linked (albeit tenuously) to a number of murders, but that's not J.D. Salinger's fault.
The next morning, I woke up to the devastating news that RFK had been shot and was tenuously clinging to life.
The adaptations are only tenuously related to the stories, and like most anthology shows, the quality varies dramatically from episode to episode.
The basic premise is that criticality is a tipping point between order and chaos, when these two extremes are tenuously in balance.
Meanwhile, on 13th Old Street, the mysterious Zack runs a shop called From Beyond, which has been tenuously linked to the occult.
The fantasy sites argued, somewhat tenuously, that constructing a winning team is more like fishing than knowing who is good at fishing.
They also tenuously joked about what will happen to Obama's legacy if Trump wins: that everything he's worked for will be overturned.
In New Haven, my mother and I revised our mode of thinking slowly, tenuously, and those changes informed our evolving sense of self.
It took everything he had, every bit of skill but also every trick, just to keep things as tenuously respectable as they were.
The results suggest — tenuously — that the total of all transgender-identified adults in the United States is in the neighborhood of 1.4 million.
But by studying others' lives, we learned of a collective past that tenuously connected us to a present that we struggled to understand.
Kids, stripped from their parents by those tenuously enacted mandates, have been, according to reports, injected with psychoactive drugs in efforts to subdue them.
The European Commission says many such stories that have appeared in the British press over the years are at best tenuously related to reality.
Gaga is working on new music, has been (tenuously) romantically linked with Jeremy Renner, and will continue her Las Vegas "Enigma" residency in late May.
Well past when they should be paying the bill for all those years of spending, the Tigers have instead been playing some tenuously meaningful baseball.
Leia is the one person who tenuously connects the trilogy's conflicted villain, her son Kylo Ren (Adam Driver), to the light side of the Force.
The car itself could be viewed as the murderer, since its capacity for destruction is so tenuously linked to that of the person driving it.
The treatments at Homecoming, which erase targeted traumatic memories and anything even tenuously associated with them via drugs hidden in mandatory meals, have worked too well.
A daily walking tour traipses around sites in the city tenuously linked to the series, excitable drama students in pajamas—sorry, wizarding robes—leading the way.
The individuals in Sneed's stories are standing tenuously on tiptoe at the precipice of irrevocable change, not yet having fallen off into scandal, crime, estrangement, insanity.
Kinship in free fall, yes, but still connected, however tenuously, to the thick braid of our African heritage, cut off at the root so long ago.
And it has added new business lines — some of which are tenuously related to office space, such as a private school and an indoor wave pool.
Most episodes would at least check in with the primary villain's plans, no matter how tenuously connected they were to the main action/monster of the week.
Because this is a small observational study, it definitely doesn't prove a causal link, but this isn't the first time Zika has been (tenuously) associated with arthrogryposis.
So we know everything, or we will eventually know everything, or more precisely we will know two parallel versions of "everything" that only tenuously and intermittently overlap.
The show has solid, if weird, production values: There's a lot of ominous music, doors creaking, and long phone conversations with people tenuously connected to the case.
But a writer's true genius rests in allowing readers to perch tenuously at the precipice between his universe and ours, safely and curiously peeking over that gulf.
But behind closed doors — and sometimes not-so-closed doors — his circle of counselors and tenuously allied politicians strenuously advise him to seek peace at any cost.
But this freedom has a downside: the rapid proliferation of orchestrated laments to tragedies which, in some cases, are only tenuously linked to those doing the lamenting.
It is based on the mighty fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, which has undergone dozens of adaptations, including, tenuously, "Frozen," the animated film and Broadway musical.
How could it not be with this impoverished mother of five, spurned not just by lovers past but also by the world whose margins she inhabits so tenuously?
Overtime, in addition to the wages from one of her teenage children who works part time at a grocery store, helps make the math work, though always tenuously.
At the moment, our broader health care system at least tenuously operates on the belief that no one should be denied health care because of ability to pay.
These feel like images you might have dreamed, both of the kind that slip away and the ones you manage to keep tenuously in your grasp, slippery, otherworldly.
Puerto Rico's aging power grid, with old, carbon-spewing generators tenuously connected to population centers via cables running through rough, hard-to-access mountains, wasn't reliable even before Maria.
The show's purpose isn't to celebrate the pleasures of smoking weed, but rather to celebrate the eccentricities of a diverse band of New Yorkers, tenuously connected by marijuana use.
Since 2013, a civil war has escalated in the Central African Republic between the Muslim rebels of Séléka and the Christian anti-balaka forces tenuously aligned with the government.
Tenuously. In 1994, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe formed the Minsk Group, which is presently chaired by ambassadors from the Russian Federation, France and the United States.
"The physical market has shifted back to oversupply because of surging OPEC output, with the most material increases driven by improving security conditions in Libya and (tenuously) Nigeria," he said.
Its only governing ideology is to wrangle content — no matter how tenuously linked to your watch history — that it thinks might keep you glued to your screen for another few seconds.
For the most part, the more dangerous elements on the show have been tenuously contained by Ehrmantrout, as he attempts to keep his shady dealings from seeping into his family life.
Locke's mother, Mary, provided a tenuously middle-class life for Alain with her salary as a teacher, and raised her son to play the aristocrat from the time he was young.
And it's only the sketchy gray man paddling a canoe across "The Beginning" who, by keeping the painting anchored however tenuously in figuration, gives its psychedelic pointillism the power to shock.
I've hung out with enough Silicon Valley startup vegantrepreneurs to know that their overarching goal is to convert more people to plant-based lifestyles for animal rights and tenuously environmental purposes.
In one of three tenuously connected parallel storylines, a mountain man named Buster (Malek) survives by breaking into empty vacation homes while ranting about Y2K to radio shows and phone-sex operators.
The ability helps the robot determine whether to have a leg in the in air or on the ground at a given time, allowing it to tenuously but tenaciously ascend the stairs.
The conspiracy is then tied tenuously to a sex trafficking sting that was apparently conducted in the Atlanta area, where CNN, the cable channel that hosts Bourdain's Parts Unknown TV program, is headquartered.
Some of those refugees live tenuously in camps and cities in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon; many others, desperate to get to Europe, have risked their lives crossing the Mediterranean Sea in small boats.
But many people feel as if they won't be touched by those jobs, and that Amazon's presence will lock them out of a place that they have increasingly tenuously been able to call home.
While Republicans may rule the White House and Congress, their patchwork alliance of moderates, traditional conservatives, Tea Partiers, and America first populists is tenuously held together at the moment by an allegiance to tax cuts.
Then, two days later, French President Emmanuel Macron, in a landmark speech outlining his vision of a New Europe, sought to seize the leadership role on the continent from Germany's tenuously re-elected chancellor Angela Merkel.
When I wasn't helping my grandmother over uneven cobblestones or going with my father to fetch the rental car, I puzzled over how to construct a narrative around these two tenuously connected halves of my journey.
In this case, the opponents argued that the developers, Mitsui Fudosan America and SJP Properties, created a "gerrymandered" 39-sided zoning lot to take advantage of the development rights from a number of tenuously adjacent lots.
A variety of seemingly-arbitrary factors determine whether a firearm may be considered an "assault weapon," each of which is only tenuously related to a firearm's lethality, and only when the operator is an especially skilled shooter.
A couple of works are tenuously linked to the theme: it's unclear to me how Helen Chadwick's photographs of animal flesh or Liliane Lijn's exploded glass sculptures are about "identity and belonging," as the wall text claims.
It was something I was excited about since Chris and I started talking about that as an ultimate end goal of season three, to get them to a place where they could be, tenuously, in the same room.
At the end of this past year in which the art world has appeared tenuously open to discussing inequality — at least on gender and race terms — it is time to question the seriousness of these apparently honorable intentions.
What sticks with the viewer are brief, furtive shots of Johnson's mother wandering her family's sheep ranch, in Wyoming, and, later, a scene when her mother brushes Johnson's hair, recognizing her, tenuously, as someone to whom tenderness is due.
Amid the new AR frenzy — which is being pushed along, thanks to powerful smartphone platforms like Apple's ARKit and Google's ARCore — all sorts of new startups are pushing a vision of consumer AR that's tenuously tied to a half-working prototype.
The film also inspired a dizzying array of sculpted characters tenuously connected through a timeline which spans from the creation of man, to Leni Riefenstahl filming Tilly Fleischer at the 1936 Olympics, to Freedman's discovery of the film and subsequent project.
But in this case opponents of the project argued that the developers, SJP Properties and Mitsui Fudosan America, created a "gerrymandered," highly unusual 39-sided zoning lot to take advantage of the development rights from a number of tenuously connected lots.
Every story veers off into a lesson — on the history of the Bloods and Crips, the invention of whiteness and crack cocaine, the composition of plasma and the cultivation of apple trees — some sections only tenuously knitted into the narrative.
This was just the first of many tenuously related, increasingly chaotic episodes, including the arrival of two Chihuahuas (the snakes, not to worry, had exited) and a migration into the adjacent black-box theater for a ritualistic ringing of hand-held bells.
After they each take turns assuring Rachel that they do not have secret girlfriends and would, in fact, kill anyone who had a secret girlfriend in order to defend her honor, Rachel's optimism returns and her trust in the process is tenuously restored.
After retiring from a 30-year career in auto manufacturing in the late '80s, Szylak began work on his folk art installation, tenuously mounted to the roof of the garage behind his Hamtramck duplex on Klinger Street and that of the adjoining property.
Should members of Congress continue to stand by as the president orders military operations only tenuously related to the goals of the authorization, it is difficult to see how Congress can legitimately claim that it is continuing to assert its constitutionally prescribed role.
Some of the companies involved in the transactions "had not, in fact, conducted any analysis of their costs when setting fees, and their post ad hoc accounting rationalization invoked a bevy of indirect and tenuously related costs in an attempt to justify their fees," the report added.
I am writing about Tinder because it's now a legal requirement that any article that's even vaguely, tangentially and tenuously linked to that amorphous blob of STIs and vintage sportswear that we think of as 'young people' must mention Tinder because Tinder is a thing young people use.
Investing in the concept of a personalized web radio and deciding to charge a fee for it turned out to be an unwise choice in an environment where music was practically becoming free and accessible, through tenuously legal YouTube uploads and the rise to prominence of streaming services.
The teen put up a rather boob-centric #TBT showing her around this time last year wearing a one-piece swimsuit with plunging cut-outs tenuously held together by string and showing off her ice blue bob (just one of her endless hair color changes over the past two years).
It's a tricky kind of chemistry to conjure up on screen, but a scene in which Michael and Mary tenuously flirt with each other via text message, and then phone about Chinese food (but not about Chinese food, if you know what I mean), is a perfect little bit of theater.
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Sanders, whose support is dipping as he tenuously clings to second place with 15% of potential Democratic voters in CNN's latest poll, has sought to strengthen his position by directly criticizing Biden's record on issues ranging from his support for the Iraq War, to NAFTA and other trade deals -- a campaign strategy Sanders personally decided to pursue.
Well, more…Read more ReadBut I can say that I personally have started to try out a vegetarian lifestyle (again, for animal rights and tenuously environmental reasons), and sometimes I just want to shove a greasy, salty, ketchup-slathered disk-on-a-bun into my pie hole and feel like a piece of shit all night.
This is all just a warm-up to what has to be the single most unlikely bridge ever written, a surging, epic, tenuously sensical description of Schwarzenegger in all his glory: Gabalier continues to enumerate the trajectory of Schwarzenegger's career—he went to Hollywood, got famous, starred in Hercules in New York—until, at long last, we hear from the man himself.
He's also taken cues from him in this campaign, shamelessly promoting a vicious story tenuously linking one of his primary opponents, Republican Congressman Charles BoustanyCharles William BoustanyMarch tariff increase would cost 85033K jobs, advocacy group says Bottom Line On The Money: US adds 155k jobs in November | Unemployment holds at 3.7 percent | Wage growth strengthening | Trump signs stopgap spending bill delaying shutdown MORE, to the murders of several prostitutes.
In between consoling me and checking in with the doctors and corralling the parents and coordinating with our friends to drive our car and all of our stuff out west (we were allowed only a single carry-on each during the airlift), Monica also had to find us a cheap apartment in one of the most expensive markets in the world before I could be even tenuously released from the hospital.
To grab some lunch at Chin Chin in Los Angeles with her BFF and resident Foodgōd Jonathan Cheban, the mobile mogul went for a minimal look, wearing a black skintight, wide boatneck bodysuit with long sleeves and a slight scoop neck paired with a form-fitting leather mini skirt, nude sandals tenuously held to her feet by just a handful of strings wrapped around her ankles and toes, and a pair of thin, rimless, oval sunglasses.

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