Example sentences for: tenuously

How can you use “tenuously” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • There is a sharper contrast between EBM and the methods of clinical experience and observational studies, according to the EBM proponent: uncontrolled studies take certain reports of clinical endpoints as observation sentences - i.e., sentences that would be agreed to by all competent observers, sentences that are the checkpoint and basis for science - when in fact some of those reports do not count as observation sentences; and in other cases, uncontrolled studies may base their conclusions on observation sentences that are too tenuously linked to the claimed result, resulting in a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.

  • Without protection for those marginal, cosmopolitan souls who cling to it tenuously, Manhattan would become much more the way people who don't live here imagine it, a soulless playground for yuppies, with an alienated underclass underfoot.

  • In Quinean terms, in an uncontrolled study, the observation statements (about the patient's condition) and the theoretical statement (about the efficacy of the treatment) may be linked too tenuously along the radii of the web; in the extreme case, the apparent linkage may be purely by chance.

  • By tenuously cooperating with rivals (as Netscape, Sun, and Oracle do) and deceiving enemies, a firm can beat its competitors.

  • Just outside Provincetown, at Province Lands, take the opportunity to climb on to the roof for a panoramic view of the dunes, tenuously anchored by pitch pines and oaks.


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