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It can feel overstuffed, and some sections of this thematically arranged presentation can feel tenuously connected to the central idea of “what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological changes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026

The success of that series forced me to confront difficult aspects of my childhood, including the fraught relationship I had tenuously built with my dad.

From Salon • May 18, 2025

But song and story are only tenuously tethered.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023

Some of those details sound suspect; others are at least tenuously drawn from history.

From Washington Post • Feb. 1, 2023

The chaplain’s voice floated up to him through the distance tenuously in an unintelligible, almost inaudible monotone, like a gaseous murmur.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller