How to pronounce tenuous
Listen to tenuous in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“tenuous” in real sentences
193 clips in the index · 42 American · 38 British. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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the tenuous ceasefire between the US, Israel, and Iran remains tenuous.
ABC News In-depth · hear it here
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tenuous connection to it.
The School of Life · hear it here
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were tenuous, verging on nonsensical.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
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The presidential election of 1876 was tenuous.
CrashCourse · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of tenuous. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.