Tenuously

But with the Isles tenuously holding onto a playoff spot right now, the traditional buy-or-sell construction is probably not quite the calculation he’s making.

Most asteroids – including Dimorphos, as it turns out – are rubble piles tenuously held together by gravity.

DETROIT — The Islanders started Wednesday tenuously hanging onto the last playoff spot in the East.

Paul Thomas Anderson's delirious opus is about people clinging to the ends of their emotional ropes, its action swirling around a mosaic of characters tenuously connected by chance and circumstance.

The Catcher in the Ryehas been linked (albeit tenuously) to a number of murders, but that’s not J.D. Salinger’s fault.

Without a predictable system of ownership and a reliable system of transfer, property is only tenuously held.

Balkan frontier On his northern frontier Manuel expended considerable effort to preserve the conquests made by Basil II over one hundred years earlier and maintained, sometimes tenuously, ever since.